Small tree to 16 m, young growth densely covered with buff or fulvous tomentum. Leaves variable in size and shape, ovate oblong-elliptic or obovate, 7.5-21 by 3.2-8.3 cm, becoming coriaceous, base broadly cuneate or rounded, apex shortly apiculate, margin entire or (more usually) irregularly dentate in the upper part, dentations either small and obscure or prominent, midrib prominent below, lateral veins evident and meeting within the margin, upper surface becoming ± glabrous above, lower surface soft-ly pubescent; petiole c. 10-15 mm, densely pubescent. Monoecious. Inflorescence axillary or supra-axillary, usually of simple, 3-flowered cymes, c. 30 mm long, densely pubescent, pedicels c. 8 mm long, male and female flowers in separate inflorescences. Male flowers scarcely wider than the pedicel (c. 1 mm), pubescent on the outer surface and on the lower part inside the receptacle; tepals 4, rounded; stamens 2, attached to the base of the receptacle, c. 0.75 mm long, anther kidney-shaped, filament nar-row, very short. Female flowers wider than the stout pedicel (to 3 mm), pubescent on both surfaces; tepals 4 (2 tepals or bracts often present on the outer surface), inner rim of ostiole thickened and glandu-lar; carpels c. 10-15, c. 1.25 mm long, pubescent, stigma obtuse glabrous. Fruiting receptacle usually solitary (developing from the terminal flower, side branches occasionally also with fruits), peduncle and pedicel becoming thickened and woody, receptacle enlarging slightly (c. 8 mm Ø), pubescent, with thick stipes or achenes ± sessile. Drupes ovoid to sub-spherical, 13-18 by 9-11 mm, sparsely pubescent.
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