Trees, to 20 m tall. Bark grayish, smooth, exfoliating. Branchlets terete. Leaf blade of young leaves ovate-lanceolate, ca. 11 × 6 cm, thinly leathery. Mature leaves with a flattened 1.5-2 cm petiole; leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, 10-16 × 2-3 cm, falcate, leathery, both surfaces with black glands, abaxially gray, secondary veins at an angle of ca. 50° from midvein, intramarginal veins ca. 1 mm from margin. Inflorescences axillary, simple, umbels with (4-)7(-10) flowers; peduncle compressed or ridged, 1.5-2 cm. Flower buds long ovate to spindle-shaped, 1-1.3 cm. Hypanthium campanulate, 5-6 × 4-5 mm; stipe 3-5 mm, 2-ridged; calyptra awl-shaped, 6-7 mm, apex acuminate to acute. Stamens 7-9 mm; anthers obovoid, dehiscing longitudinally. Capsule semiglobose to campanulate, 7-10 × 6-8 mm; disk broad; valves (3 or)4(or 5), exserted from hypanthium. Fl. Aug-Oct.

Cultivated in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, and Sichuan [native to SE Australia].