Trees, deciduous, to 25 m tall; bark smooth, gray; branches rather stout, weakly flattened to terete, puberulent to densely pilosulous or glabrescent. Leaves often grouped near ends of branches; petiole 2-17 cm, pilosulous; blade drying papery or membranous, ovate-elliptic, elliptic, or broadly elliptic, 9-22 × 6-14 cm, both surfaces pilosulous with pubescence sometimes denser abaxially, base acute to obtuse, margins entire, apex shortly acuminate or acute; secondary veins 7-10 pairs, sometimes with pilosulous domatia; stipules ovate to triangular or lanceolate, 5-20 mm, densely pilosulous, obtuse to acute or bilobed for up to 1/2. Inflorescences terminal and in axils of uppermost leaves, 15-20 cm, simple or branched at least in part, with axes densely spiciform to racemiform, pilosulous, usually pendulous; peduncles ca. 6 cm; basal bracts 2-4, with blade papery to leathery, ovate to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 9-17 × 2-5.5 cm, pilosulous, with stipe 3-8 cm. Flowers subsessile or with pedicels to 2 mm. Calyx densely puberulent to pilosulous; ovary portion subglobose to ellipsoid, 1-1.5 mm; limb lobed essentially to base; lobes triangular to elliptic, 1-1.5 mm. Corolla white or brown, outside densely puberulent to pilosulous; tube 2.5-3.5 mm, slenderly cylindrical then abruptly inflated at lobes; lobes ligulate to lanceolate, 2-2.5 mm, acute. Style exserted for 2-5 mm. Fruiting pedicels to 10 mm, reflexed. Capsules brown, 1.2-3 × 0.5-1.1 cm, woody, with prominent whitened, elliptic lenticels; seeds (including wing) 7-8 mm. Fl. May-Jul, fr. May-Dec.
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A tree. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 25 m tall. The bark is smooth and grey. The leaves are often grouped near the ends of branches. The leaves are narrowly oval and 9-22 cm long by 6-14 cm wide. The flowers are near the ends of branches. They are white or brown. The fruit is an oval capsule 2-3 cm long. There are many flat seeds.
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