Tree 10–15 m high. Young stems densely and shortly hairy. Leaves usually elliptic or narrowly elliptic, glabrous on adaxial surface, with short hairs abaxially especially on midrib and margins; lamina 5.5–22 cm long, 2–9 cm wide; petiole 6–15 mm long. Inflorescence of 2–4-flowered clusters, each with a peduncle 1–6 mm long. Flowers bisexual or unisexual; pedicel 6–8 mm long, densely hairy. Sepals 5, broadly ovate to almost circular, c. 6 mm long, very densely hairy outside, green. Stamens numerous, not or shortly exserted above sepals. Mature fruit lobed-globular, c. 15 mm long, very densely covered by yellow-brown hairs. Seeds somewhat laterally compressed, c. 7 mm long, glabrous.