Trees ca. 25 m tall; branchlets, petiole of young leaves, and mature leaf blades abaxially pubescent and with usually glabrescent yellowish brown to reddish brown, small, lamellate, waxy scalelike trichomes. Petiole 1.5-2 cm; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, ovate, or narrowly oblong, 9-18 × 4-6 cm, thickly papery, base rounded to shortly cuneate and symmetric or slightly oblique, margin entire or rarely from middle to apex shallowly undulate, apex acuminate; midvein adaxially impressed or sometimes slightly raised or flat from base to middle; secondary veins 13-17 on each side of midvein. Infructescence 27 cm; rachis from base to middle 2-3.5 mm thick. Cupule ellipsoid to broadly obovoid, 2.5-3 cm in diam., outside and bracts pubescent and with usually glabrescent yellowish brown to reddish brown small lamellate waxy scalelike trichomes, wall 0.5-1 mm thick and exterior visible through bracts; bracts spinelike, 8-10 mm, greatly variable in thickness, base connate into scattered bundles. Nut 1(or 2) per cupule, broadly ovoid, 1.2-1.4 × 0.9-1.2 cm, puberulent; scar basal, 8-10 mm in diam. Fl. Jun-Aug, fr. Oct-Nov of following year.
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A medium sized tree. It grows 15-20 m high. The trunk is straight. The branches are long, dry and brittle and curve downwards. The leaves are hairy underneath with scale like processes. The leaf stalk is 1.5-2 cm long. The leaf blade is oval or oblong. It is 9-18 cm long by 4-6 cm wide. It is thickly papery. There are 13-17 side veins on each side. The female flowering stalk is 27 cm long. The cup is oval and 2.5-3 cm across. The outside is hairy. There is one or occasionally 2 nuts per cup. They are oval and 1.2-1.4 cm long by 0.9-1.2 cm wide.
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