Trees 5-10 m tall; young branchlets and young leaf blades abaxially pubescent and with glabrescent, rusty brown, waxy scalelike trichomes. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate, 9-16 × 3.5-5 cm, abaxially reddish brown but may become gray to grayish brown with age, base acute to rounded, margin entire or rarely with 1 or 2 teeth, apex acute; midvein adaxially impressed; secondary veins 11-14 on each side of midvein, sometimes impressed. Infructescences ca. 25 cm; rachis slender. Cupules loosely arranged, globose to ellipsoid, 1.6-2.2 cm in diam., outside covered with brownish, small, lamellate, waxy scalelike trichomes, sometimes pubescent, wall to 1 mm thick; bracts spinelike, sparsely covering cupule, 3-5 mm, slender, free but a few in bundles. Nut 1 per cupule, broadly conical, 1.5-2 × 1-1.6 cm, glabrous; scar basal, 8-10 mm in diam. Fl. Apr-May, fr. Sep-Oct of following year.
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An evergreen tree. It grows to about 20 m tall. The bark is cracked. The leaves are 4.5-19 cm long by 1.5-7 cm wide. They are sword shaped. The flowers do not have stalks. The fruit is a nut enclosed in a spiny top shaped covering.
A tropical and subtropical plant. In Nepal plants grow between 100-1500 m altitude. In the Indian Himalayas it grows between 1,200-2,000 m above sea level. In Sikkim is grows between 450-2,300 m above sea level.
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Broad-leaved evergreen forests; at elevations around 1,300 metres in western China. Found at elevations up to 1,800 metres in the Himalayas.
Hill forests at elevations up to 1,800 metres in India.
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