Tree up to 20 m tall, evergreen. Leafy twigs 4-7 mm thick, ± densely brown hirsute, the long hairs with swollen bases and intermixed with much shorter hairs, ± scabrous, drying brown; lenticels scattered. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina subcoriaceous, entire, elliptic to subobovate, (6-)10-22 by (2.5-)4.5-9 cm, short-acuminate to subacuminate or to acute (and apiculate) or to obtuse, base cuneate to obtuse, margin dent(icul)ate towards the apex; upper surface brownish hispidulous, to hirtellous on the main veins, ± scabrous; lower surface brownish (sub)hispidulous to puberulous, to hirtellous on the main veins, scabridulous; lateral veins (8-)12-15 pairs, not branched or forked away from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform (to reticulate), prominent; petiole 1-1.5(-2) cm long, 2-4 mm thick, brown hirtellous to subhirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1(-2.5) cm, brown subhirtellous to strigose, caducous. Staminate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 1-3 cm long, brown hirtellous, ± scabrous; head ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.5-3 by 1-2 cm; perianth tubular c. 0.6 mm long, the apex 2-lobed, minutely puberulous; stamen c. 0.7 mm long, anther 0.1 mm long; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part 0.2-0.3 mm diam., yellowish puberulous. Pistillate inflorescences axillary, solitary; peduncle 2.5-3.5 cm long, brown hirtellous, ± scabrous; head ellipsoid to subglobose; perianth tubular, hispidulous, the apex ± convex; stigma simple; interfloral bracts peltate, the apical part 0.2-0.3 mm diam., yellowish puberulous. Infructescences subglobose, 4-5.5 cm diam., covered with 5-6 mm long cylindrical apices of the perianths; fruits ellipsoid, 1-1.3 cm long.
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