Tree or treelet. Branchlets densely short-hairy in youngest parts. Leaves oblong, rarely elliptic-oblong, apex rather suddenly narrow-acuminate for 1-2 cm, tip bluntish, base cuneate to the petiole, a little inequilateral, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, olivaceous to brown above, paler beneath when dry, (12-)16-25 by 5-8 cm, glabrous above, hairy at midrib and nerves, glabrous otherwise beneath, nerves 10-12 pairs, the lowest pair generally more steeply ascending than the other ones, all nerves markedly looping before the edge, generally a little impressed above, raised beneath, transverse veins finely prominent beneath, no reticulation; petiole hairy initially, c. 1 cm by 1.5-2 mm. ♂ Inflorescences composed from several short few-flowered cymes on top of a peduncle (5-8 mm), densely fuscous short-hairy all over, the petals excepted. Calyx cup-shaped, base truncate, obscurely 4-5-dented, 1.5 mm. Petals forming a narrow-campanulate tube 4-5-lobed half-way or partly further down, glabrous, 3.5 mm. Stamens 4(-5), slightly exserted; filaments with pe-nicillate hairs in upper half of the ventral, less densely so on dorsal side. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences bearing 3-4 flowers clustered on top of peduncle (5 mm). Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes not seen. Ovary glabrous. Drupes 2 or 3 per infructescence, known only in submature state, fusiform, 3.5-4 by 0.5-0.6 cm, the much attenuate distal rostrate and the basal part each c. 5 mm.
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