Unarmed tree; branchlets dilute-ferrugineous-pubescent apically, soon covered with whitish or greyish cork. Leaves oblong-elliptic, obtuse-acuminate, inequilateral and distinctly cordate at the base, firmly chartaceous, coarsely crenate, shining and glabrous on the upper surface except the pubescent midrib and the nerves, dull beneath and laxly covered with short, subferrugineous hairs, more densely so on midrib and nerves, 9-25 (-30) by 4-10 cm; midrib slightly prominent, sometimes somewhat impressed above, very prominent beneath, nerves (8-) 10-12 pairs, the inferior 3-4 rising from the leaf-base, the others suberect from the midrib, all slightly prominent above, distinctly so beneath, veins transverse, numerous, only little prominent on both sides as are the rather dense reticulations; petiole thick, densely pubescent 5-7(-10) mm. Racemes axillary, few-flowered, 1-1.5 cm, rather densely rufous-pubescent. Pedicels rather slender, 4 mm. Bracts ovate-rotundate, 1 mm. Sepals 4, ovate, densely hairy on both sides, c. 1.5 mm. Disk undulate. ♂ Flowers: stamens c. 15; filaments pubescent, 2 mm. ♀ Flowers: not seen. Fruit subglobose, c. 1.5 cm diam., crowned by 4-5(-7), ± reflexed, shortly bilobed, c. 1 mm long styles radiating from the very apex of the fruit.
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