Tree up to 30 m tall, sometimes with buttresses, deciduous. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, brownish to whitish puberulous, sometimes partly with retrorse uncinate hairs, smooth, drying dark brown to blackish. Leaves distichous; lamina subcoriaceous to chartaceous, entire or 3-5-lobate when juvenile, ovate to subovate to elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 6-20 by 5-13 cm, apex acuminate, base cordate to subcordate to rounded, (almost) equal, margin glandular-crenate, ± revolute, at least towards the base; upper surface whitish to brownish puberulous on the main veins (to subglabrous), smooth (to scabridulous); lower surface sparsely to densely whitish to brownish puberulous to subtomentose on the (main) veins, smooth (to scabridulous); lateral veins 5-9 pairs, the basal pair branched, tertiary venation scalariform, ± prominent; petiole 1-3.5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, ± densely brownish to whitish puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules lateral, 0.3-0.5 cm long, brownish to whitish appressedly puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary or on short-shoots on the older wood; peduncle 5-7 mm long, brownish velutinous; head ellipsoid to cylindrical, 5-8 mm long, 2-3 mm diam.; perianth with 4 free tepals, c. 0.7 mm long; stamen not exserted, anther c. 0.4 mm long; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part c. 0.6 mm diam., puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary or on short-shoots on the older wood; peduncle up to 12 mm long, brownish velutinous; head globose, at anthesis c. 5 mm diam.; stigma bifid; interfloral bracts peltate. Infructescences not seen.
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A tree. It grows 30-40 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. It can sometimes have buttresses. The leaves are oval. Male and female flowers are separate. The fruit are small-2 cm across.
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