Tree 10-15 m; branchlets rather stout, densely and it persistently dark rufous-tomentose at the tips, more greyish-to yellowish-tomentose below in the older parts, finally glabrescent. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic, gradually or rather abruptly acuminate and subacute at the apex, cuneate into the petiole, the very young ones rufous-tomentose on both faces, soon glabrescent, mostly entirely glabrous at flowering time midrib and petiole excepted, subcoriaceous, yellowish-green to yel-lowish-olivaceous when dry, entire, (5-)8-12(-18, in suckers or seedlings up to 26) cm by (3½-)4-6 (-8-11) cm; midrib slightly raised above, very distinctly so beneath, nerves (5-)6-8(-9) pairs, curved-ascending, rather obscurely inarching along the edge, prominent on both faces, reticulations rather dense and raised on both faces; petiole 1-2 cm by 1.5-2(-2.5) mm. Racemes axillary, solitary, rather dense-flowered, 6-8 cm, rufous-nearly villous-tomentose; rhachis 1.5-2 mm across. Bracts ovate-acuminate, 1-1.5 mm. Pedicels stoutish, 1-2 (the lowest ones rarely up to 3) mm in flower, mostly in twos and ± connate. Perianth 11-12 mm, tube 1.5 mm, limb clavate 2-2.5 mm diam. Anthers c. 2 mm. Disk glands broadly triangular, obtuse, free, spaced. Ovary globose, rufous-villous; style slender, glabrous. Nearly ripe fruit oblique, elongate-ellipsoid to ovoid, apiculate, shortly attenuate at the base, rufous-tomentose, 2.5-3 by c. 2 cm, pericarp 2 mm; pedicel 2-3 mm.
Mountain-forest, 350-1500 m, apparently scattered and rare on stony ridges. Fl. March-May, fr.--04.
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