Shrubs or small to medium-sized trees, up to 25-30 m by 50-60 cm, up to 40 m high, sometimes buttressed. Branchlets fulvous-tomentose, at least when young. Petioles 0.5-3.5 cm long, slender, articulated near the leaf-base, tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, sometimes obovate, 7-22(-33) by 3-9 cm, papyraceous to coriaceous, tomentose on the midrib above, beneath glabrous to thinly tomentose on the whole surface; base acute, rounded, or subcordate, sometimes slightly peltate; apex tapering to rather abruptly, blunt-to acute-acuminate; nerves 5-10(-12) pairs, patent to nearly transverse, distinctly looped and joined or not. Inflorescences axillary or ramiflorous, paniculate to glomerulous, up to c. 2.5 cm long, many-to few-flowered, always densely pilose. Flowers bisexual (always?), pro-tandrous, (4-)5(-6)-merous. Sepals ovate to deltoid, blunt or acute, 1½-2 mm long, inside tomentose to glabrous. Petals ovate to linear, blunt, 2-4½ by 1¼-2½ mm, outside pilose, inside minutely tomentose usually with the exception of the base. Stamens glabrous or inside pubescent, at least the tube, staminodes glabrous; anthers pale yellow. Pistil pale orange, stigma usually 2-lobed, white. Infructescences not accrescent, usually with few fruits. Fruits 1h-3 cm stipitate, slightly to c. 135° geniculate on top of the stipe, the fertile part blunt-triangular to oblique-ovoid, often much flattened, 2-4 by ¾-1¼ cm, blunt with a style-remnant or short-beaked, the ventral suture straight and smooth or sinuous and tuberculate either in the middle or near the base. Seed 12-20 by 6-10 mm, often flattened; arilloid minute and cupular to covering +-of the seed and deeply lobed, always adaxially split up to below the hilum.
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