Trees ca. 10 m, glabrous. Branchlets subterete or slightly compressed, glabrous or nearly so. Petiole 2-3.5 cm; leaf blade ovate-elliptic or elliptic, 6-15 × 3-6.5 cm, papery, sparsely covered with white peltate scales, base attenuate, apex acuminate or long acuminate, rarely slightly obtuse; primary veins 8 or 9 on each side of midrib, raised. Panicles axillary, many flowered, 4-9 cm; peduncle 1.5-4 cm. Pedicel 1-2 mm. Calyx 1-1.5 mm; lobes ovate, 0.6-1 mm, acute or slightly blunt. Corolla 5-8 mm; tube 0.4-0.6 mm; lobes lanceolate, obtuse. Fruit not seen. Fl. Mar.