Tree, 12-45 m high, 30-150 cm in diam., bole rather straight to columnar, without buttresses; bark grey. Innovations densely stellate-hairy and stellate-lepidote, glabrescent. Leaves ovate, ovate-oblong, oblong or ovate-lanceolate, sometimes obovate or roundish, 4-18 by 2-6½ cm, acute, acuminate or caudate at the apex, often slightly oblique, rounded, obtuse or acute at the base, margin entire and recurved or (in saplings and young trees) above the middle of the leaf with 1-3 sharp, glandlike tipped, thickened teeth, when mature glabrous or tardily glabrescent beneath, thin-to firmly coriaceous; midrib impressed above; nerves (3-)4-6 pairs; petiole 1/3-10 cm. Stipules lanceolate to linear, 3-7 by ¼-¾ mm, very acute at the apex, thinly stellate and stellate-lepidote. Male spikes or racemes 0.5-2.5 cm long, rather densely 3-6-flowered, female and ☿ spikes or (often branched) racemes 1.5-3 cm long, rather laxly 4-12-flowered, with the axial parts stellate-hairy and stellate-lepidote. Bracts lanceolate, 2-3 by 0.5-1 mm. Filaments 1.5-2 mm long, glabrous; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, red. Ovary ovoid, 1.75-2.5 by 2-2½ mm, densely dark-brown stellate-tomentose; styles 4-5 mm. Fruits ellipsoid to ovoid, 10-14 by 8-11 mm, subacute, apiculate by short remains of the styles, brown stellate-tomentose. Seeds ellipsoid to ovoid, c. 6-7 mm long, whitish, turning brown and shining; hilum apical, slightly impressed, descending shortly on one lateral side.
Scattered on slopes and ridges in evergreen, mixed rain-forest, locally common, 1000-2700 m
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