Small tree 4-5 m. Twigs terete. Leaves cuneate-obovate, up to 40 by 16 cm, base ± attenuate, apex short-acuminate; nerves 16-18 pairs, straight, sharply raised beneath and connected towards the margin; petiole 1 cm long. Inflorescences on the older wood, to 25 by 10 cm, glabrescent, loosely flowered. Male flowers yellow, clavate, 4 by 2 mm (excluding pedicel?), the perianth 2-lobed, cleft to hardly 1/4. Staminal column thick; thecae to c. 20, the androphore about as long as the anthers or slightly shorter.