Tree up to 35 m tall, with intermittent growth and terminal and axillary buds, deciduous. Leafy twigs 2.5-6 mm thick, densely brown puberulous, smooth, drying brown to blackish. Leaves distichous; lamina (sub)coriaceous, entire, elliptic to subrotundate, 9-21 by 5.5-16 cm, apex short-acuminate to rounded, base rounded to cuneate (to subattenuate), ± unequal, margin entire, revolute to flat; upper surface brownish puberulous mostly on the main veins, smooth; lower surface brownish strigillose to appressedly puberulous on the midrib, patently puberulous on the smaller veins, minutely whitish appressedly puberulous in the areoles, smooth, nearly glabrous when fresh; lateral veins 6-10 pairs, often one or more forked away from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, prominent, also the smaller veins; petiole (1.5-)3-7 cm long, (1.5-)2.5-3 mm thick, densely brown puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules lateral, 0.3-0.5 cm long, brownish to yellowish puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary (or in pairs); peduncle 1-2 mm long, brown short-velutinous; head subglobose, 4-6 mm diam.; perianth with 2 partly connate tepals, c. 0.7 mm long; stamen c. 0.8 mm long, anther c. 0.2 mm long; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part 0.3-0.5 mm diam., puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary (or in pairs); peduncle 2-4 mm long, brown short-velutinous; head subglobose; stigma simple; interfloral bracts peltate, persistent, the apical part 0.3-0.5 mm diam., puberulous, persistent. Infructescences subglobose, up to 4 cm diam., subvelutinous, smooth to scabridulous; fruits ellipsoid, c. 1 cm long.
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A tree. It grows up to 35 m altitude.