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Male flowers ferruginously tomentose; pedicels c. 1 cm. long, not articulated; calyx campanulaterotate, deeply 5–6-lobed, densely light-brown-pubescent or-tomentose outside; tube glabrous within, 1·5 mm. long; lobes 3·5–6 × 2·5–3 mm., narrowly ovate, apex acute, with 3 longitudinal nerves, densely stellate-pubescent in the upper half within, with minute globose papillae below; androphore c. 3 mm. long, densely stellate-pubescent to near the apex, crowned by a uniseriate ring of 5–6 anthers; vestigial carpels 4, immersed in the top.
Female flowers as in the male but with 4 stellate-tomentose, 2-ovulate carpels; style 1 mm. long, stellate-tomentose; stigmas 1 × 0·75 mm., patent, papillose; anthers 6–7, sessile, surrounding the base of the carpels.
Follicles 1–2, 1·3–1·4 × 1·3–1·7 cm., sessile or subsessile, fubglobose, apex rounded or bluntly mucronate, slightly narrowed at the base, serruginously stellate-tomentose, 1–2-seeded.
Evergreen tree up to 27 m. tall; young branches softly and ferruginously stellate-tomentose, soon glabrescent; bark ashy-grey.
Flowers in few-to many-flowered fascicles on the 1–3-year-old wood.
Seeds ellipsoid, c. 1·2 × 0·9 cm.; testa brown, rugulose.
