Trees; bud scales, shoot apexes, and young leaf blades abaxially yellowish brown puberulent and covered with rust-colored, small, lamellate, slightly adnate, waxy scalelike trichomes. Branchlets red-purple, prominently angular. Leaves spirally arranged, yellowish brown to gray; petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade oblong to obovate-elliptic, very variable in sizes, often 15-25 × 5-9 cm, thickly papery, base cuneate, margin from base to middle undulate and crenate, apex acute, acuminate, or rounded; midvein raised adaxially; secondary veins 20-28 on each side of midvein or rarely fewer. Infructescence 8-18 cm; rachis glabrous. Cupule 1-1.5 cm in diameter, irregularly 2-or 3(or 4)-valved with valves often curled, covered with dark reddish brown mealy waxy scalelike trichomes, apex slightly cuspidate, wall 0.5-1 mm thick; bracts scalelike, triangular to squarish, imbricate when young but mostly united and in ring ribs with age. Nut globose to elliptic, 1.3-1.8 × 1.1-1.6 cm, apically brown-red tomentose; scar basal, 4-7 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-Jun, fr. Oct-Dec.
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A medium sized tree. It grows up to 20 m in height. The trunk is 30-50 cm across. The young shoots and leaves are covered with brownish yellow hairs and rusty coloured scales. The young branches are red-purple. They are often angular. The leaves are arranged in spirals. They are yellowish brown. The leaf stalk is 1-2.5 cm long and the leaf blade is oval to oblong. Leaves vary in size. They are often 15-25 cm long by 5-9 cm wide. They are thickly papery. The base is wedge shaped and towards the tip the edge is irregular and wavy. The cup is 1-1.5 cm across. It has 2-4 valves which are curled and covered with dark brown scale like structures. The nut is round to oval. It is 1.3-1.8 cm long by 1.1-1.6 cm wide. The tip is brown-red and hairy.
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