Trees 14-16 m tall. Bark brown, coarse. Branchlets pale reddish brown, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, curly to appressed puberulent. Stipules pyramidal, often caducous and leaving a scar. Petiole 4-10 mm, sparsely pubescent; leaf blade elliptic, obovate, or narrowly oblong, 8-20(or longer) × 4-10 cm, leathery, abaxially greenish, densely pubescent and sparsely covered with short curly hairs along midvein, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire or sometimes apically with a few shallow teeth, apex mucronate; midvein and secondary veins abaxially conspicuously raised and reddish when dry, secondary veins 6-9 on each side of midvein, tertiary veins pale brown. Inflorescences axillary, solitary. Male inflorescences obovoid to ellipsoid, 1-1.5 × 0.8-1.5 cm; peduncle shorter than inflorescence; bracts petiolate, shield-shaped. Female inflorescences globose; bracts shield-shaped. Male flowers: calyx lobes 2 or 3, margin ciliate; anther ellipsoid. Female flowers: calyx completely connate; style exserted. Fruiting syncarp yellow when mature, reddish brown when dry, ± globose, ca. 6.5 cm in diam.; peduncle 3-4 cm. Drupes ellipsoid, 1.2-1.5 × 0.9-1.2 cm. Fl. summer to autumn.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 20-25 m high. The trunk is 30 cm across. The bark is dark brown and coarse. The young branches are pale reddish brown and with curly bent hairs. The leaf stalk is 4-10 mm long. The leaf blade is narrowly oval and 8-20 cm long by 4-10 cm wide. It is leathery. They are hairy underneath. The male flower is round and 1-1.5 cm long by 0.8-1.5 cm wide. The female flowers are round and the bracts shield shaped. The fruit are yellow when mature. They are 6.5 cm across. The fruit stalk is 3-4 cm long.
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