Tree 5-30 m. Twigs stout, sometimes somewhat flattened or angular, 4-10 mm in diameter, at first with rusty hairs 1-2 mm long, glabrescent, (blackish) brown; bark finely striate, when older tending to crack or flake. Leaves thickly coriaceous, oblong or lanceolate, 15-50 by 2.5-14 cm, base rounded, or subcordate or subcuneate, apex obtusish or acute-acuminate; olivaceous, glossy above; lower surface at first with dense rusty indumentum, early glabrescent, greyish to pinkish; dots absent; midrib much raised above; nerves 20-35 pairs, raised above, distinctly interarching; venation faint above; petiole 12-30(-40) by 3-8 mm. Inflorescences: sessile, brachyblast simple or warted with up to 10 protuberances, up to 20 by 10 mm, in male (5-)10-50-flowered, in female 5-25-flowered; flowers at first with hairs 0.4-1 mm long, glabrescent, perianth 3-lobed, white, pink or red inside. Male flowers: pedicel (15-)20-30 mm long, bracteole 1-3 mm long, subpersistent, about median; buds mitriform, triquetrous in cross section, 6-10 by 9-15 mm, cleft nearly to the base, lobes broad, reniform, 0.5(-l) mm thick; staminal disc flat or ± convex, circular or ± triangular, 3-5 mm in diameter; anthers 14-23, just sessile, oblong, 1-1.5 mm long, horizontal or ± oblique, not touching; androphore 0.5-1 mm. Female flowers: pedicel 12-25 mm long, bracteole about median; buds subovoid-mitriform, narrower than in male, 7-9 by 5-7 mm, cleft nearly to the base, lobes 0.5-1 mm thick; ovary globose or ovoid, 3-3.5 by 2.5-3 mm; stigma sessile, 2-lobed and each lobe again (deeply) 4-8-lobulate. Fruits (1—)2—5 per infructescence, obovoid or pear-shaped, often contracted towards the base, 2-5 by 1.5-3 cm, sometimes ridged, apex sometimes beaked; pericarp 2-3 mm thick, at first with indumentum of hairs 0.5 mm long, glabrescent; fruiting pedicel 15-30 mm long.
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