Tree 8 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Bark rough throughout, tessellated, flaking or scaly, thick, grey-brown over pinkish.Branchlets setose or scabrid; non-glaucous; lack oil glands in the pith.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stems rounded in cross-section, scabrid; juvenile leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, cordate to oblong, to 3–10 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, green, shortly setose/scabrid. Crown of thin-textured juvenile leaves, opposite, sessile or with petioles to 0.8 cm long; blade oblong to elliptical, (3.5)4–12.2 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide, base amplexicaul or lobed, margin entire, apex pointed or rounded and apiculate, concolorous, dull, yellow-green to light green to grey-green, scabrid with dense short setae more or less even in length, side-veins at a wide angle to the midrib (penniveined), reticulation very dense, intramarginal vein present, close to the margin, oil glands apparently absent from the venation pattern.Inflorescence terminal compound and with some solitary clusters in upper axils, peduncles rounded or angled, 0.5–3 cm long, buds 7 per umbel, pedicels 0.1–0.9 cm. Mature buds pyriform to obovoid, ca 0.6 cm long, 0.4–0.5 cm wide, densely and evenly setose, scar absent (both opercula shed together at flowering), operculum conical or rounded, stamens inflexed, all fertile, anthers versatile, dorsifixed, oblong, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma blunt and ? with a fringe of papillae, locules (3)4, with 5 or 7 vertical ovule rows, or the rows indistinct on the placentae. Flowers white.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.2–1 cm long), urceolate to barrel-shaped with a short neck, (1)1.2–1.7 cm long, (0.8)1–1.6 cm wide, relatively thin-walled, rim not prominent, surface rough or becoming smooth, disc descending vertically, valves (3)4, enclosed.Seeds brown, 8–11 mm long, ellipsoidal with terminal wing, hilum ventral. Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): not grown yet.
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