Small to large-sized tree up to 40 m, 60 cm ø. Bark smooth to finely fissured, pustular or lenti-cellate. Terminal bud 2-3 by ¼-½ cm; stipules linear-lanceolate, 1½-2½ by ¼-½ cm. Leaves thick-coriaceous, broad ovate-elliptic or elliptic-oblong, (6-)12-16(-21) by (3½-)5-8(-13)cm, index 2-2½, except for midrib and nerves glabrous; base attenuate or rounded, unequal-sided; margin entire or occasionally, especially when young, distantly serrulate at least for the upper half; apex rounded or attenuate-acute; midrib and nerves raised beneath, flattish above, sparsely or densely yellowish-brown appressed short-hairy beneath; nerves (6-)8(-10) pairs, 10-15 mm spaced, at more than 60° with the midrib, arcuating and anastomosing along the margin; reticulations subscalari-form, fine, dense or rather well-spaced, slightly and clearly visible beneath, flattish and faintly visible above or obscure; petiole 5-15 by 1-2 mm, terete or adaxially flat near the base, sparsely or densely appressed, simple, short, yellowish-brown pubescent, glabrescent. Inflorescence ♂ or ♀, axillary, borne on separate branchlets or rarely on the same branchlet, including the bracts sparsely to densely short, yellowish-brown, appressed-hairy, glabrescent; bracts ovate-acute, 1-2 by ½-1 mm. ♂ Inflorescence paniculate, pendent, much-branched, 40-100-flowered, axes up to 3-7 cm long, ½-1 mm thick; ♂ flowers 1½-2½ mm ø, sessile and solitary along the axes or in clusters of 3-5 on short, condensed secondary branches of the panicle; perianth lobes sparsely short appressed-pubescent, glabrescent, broadly ovate-rounded, 2-2½ by 1½-2 mm; filaments 1½-2 mm, anthers ovoid-subreniform, c. 1 by 1 mm; pistillode strongly rudimentary. ♀ Inflorescence racemose, unbranched or more commonly branched, axes 3-6 cm long, l-l½ nim thick, bearing (2-)5-10 (-15) flowers; ♂ flowers solitary and short-stalked along the axes, 2-4 by 2 mm; perianth lobes broadly ovate-acute, 1½-2 by P^mm, sparsely appressed-pubescent outside; ovary 2-3 by 2 mm, densely appressed-pubescent, glabrescent; stigmatic arms up to 2 cm. Infructescence with a sturdy axis up to 2 mm thick, 5-10 cm long, bearing (2-)5-8 (-10) fruits. Fruit 1-1¼ by 8-9 by 5-6 mm, sparsely appressed-pubescent, glabrescent, beak 2-5 mm.
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Trees, 10-20(-30) m tall, d.b.h. 25-50(-100) cm, dioecious. Bark gray to dark gray, smooth. Branchlets yellowish green or brown, covered with hirsute hairs. Stipules opposite, lanceolate, 1-2.7 cm, abaxially strigose. Petiole 4-12 mm, strigose; leaf blade elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 10-25 × 4.5-10 cm, leathery, abaxially green, scabridulous, and with appressed hairs on major veins, adaxially pale green and glabrous, base ± symmetric, margin bluntly serrate or subentire, apex shortly caudate-acuminate; secondary veins 8-12 on each side of midvein. Rachis sparsely strigose. Male inflorescences highly branched. Female inflorescences racemose. Male flowers: ca. 2 mm in diam., tepals and anthers strigose. Infructescences with 1-5 drupes. Drupes subsessile or short-stalked, broadly ovoid to broadly ellipsoid, 4-8 mm in diam., laterally compressed; perianth and style persistent; endocarp reddish orange when mature, with 2 obtuse ribs. Fl. Feb-Apr, fr. most of the year.
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