Trees to 20 m. Bark dark gray, rough. Young branchlets 1-1.5 mm thick, densely white appressed-puberulent. Stipules subulate, caducous. Leaves distichous; petiole 0.8-1.4 cm, pubescent; leaf blade oblong, obovate-lanceolate, or sometimes elliptic, 4-8 × 2.5-3 cm, lobed or apically shallowly toothed on new leaves of young trees, leathery to papery, abaxially densely covered with white farinaceous hairs especially on veins, adaxially dark green and sparsely pubescent, base cuneate to decurrent on petiole, margin entire, apex acuminate to caudate; secondary veins 4-7 on each side of midvein, tertiary veins reticulate, abaxially ± flat, and adaxially raised when dry. Inflorescences axillary, solitary. Male inflorescences ellipsoid, 6-12 × 4-7 mm, densely covered with grayish white pubescence; peduncle ca. 1.5 cm with glandular hairs; bracts 1(-6), shield-shaped to ± orbicular. Male flowers: filament thin; anther globose. Female flowers: calyx lobes 2 or 3, oblong, pubescent. Fruiting syncarp yellow, reddish brown when dry, globose, ca. 4 cm in diam., pubescent, covered with curved cylindric papillae; peduncle 1.8-2.5 cm, pubescent. Drupes globose. Fl. early autumn, fr. late autumn to early winter.
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A large evergreen tree. It grows 20-25 m tall. The trunk can be 80 cm across. The bark is dark grey and coarse. The young branches are covered with dense white hairs. The leaf stalk is 0.8-1.4 mm long. The leaf blade is oblong and 4-8 cm long by 2.5-3 cm wide. They have lobes. The leaves are papery to leathery. Flowers are of separate sexes on the one tree. They occur singly in the axils of leaves. The male flowering stalk is oblong and 6-12 mm long by 4-7 mm wide. It is densely covered with greyish white hairs. The fruit is yellow and reddish brown when dry. It is round and about 4 cm across. The fruit contains many small seeds.
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