Tree up to 20 m, with pubescent branches. Leaves ovate or elliptic, 120-240 by 40-80 mm, charta-ceous, base rounded to broadly cuneate, apex obtuse or subacute, margin entire or occasionally with few coarse dentations, midrib prominent and reticulation of veins evident, pubescence persisting on the midrib below and to a less extent on the subsidiary veins; petiole 10-15 mm, channelled above, pubescent. Monoecious. Inflorescence axillary or supra-axillary, on leafy twigs or clustered on older branches, simple dichasia or open cymose panicles, rachis up to 10 cm with several pairs of lateral branches, or much shorter, pubescent; bracts ovate, c. 4 mm long, at the base the peduncle and lateral branches and usually at the base of each receptacle. Male receptacle obovoid, pubescent outside, c. 5 mm long at anthesis; tepals 6, rounded; stamens 6-8, subsessile, anther broadly triangular with a single horseshoe-shaped opening. Female receptacle similar, 6-8 mm long; tepals in several pairs with swollen glands within, inner surface pubescent; carpels numerous, pubescent, stigma short, obtuse. Drupes ± sessile, ovoid, c. 12 by 9 mm, pubescent; fruiting receptacle c. 10 mm Ø, woody.
Lower montane forest (Nothofagus, Cas-tanopsis, Lithocarpus), 1400-2000 m.
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