Tree to 20 m, or shrub, sometimes semi-scandent; young shoots densely covered with minute hairs. Leaves chartaceous, broadly to narrowly obovate or elliptic, 6-15 by 2.6-7 cm; base cuneate; apex usually acute apiculate, sometimes obtuse; margin entire or occasionally dentate in its upper part; midrib prominent; lateral veins approaching the margin, the lower veins often ascending well beyond the middle of the blade; whole undersurface often russet or fawn, more or less densely covered in short curled or rarely lax hairs, or these confined to the principal veins; petiole 8-15 mm long, pubescent or glabrescent. Dioecious. Inflorescence of terminal and axillary panicles, those in the upper axils often combining to form a massive compound leafy panicle, the male rather more finely branched than the female; rachis bearing pairs of pleiochasial branches sub-tended by small bracts, tomentose. Male flowers globose, 4-6 mm ø; receptacle small; tepals rounded; stamens numerous, connective projecting, anthers sessile. Female flowers with a coriaceous cu-puliform receptacle 5-8 mm ø, with 4 irregularly cleft tepals; carpels numerous (c. 20-100), densely packed over the receptacle, ovoid with a short style. Drupes numerous, ovoid, 8 by 5 mm when dry, ses-sile on a leathery pilose receptacle with a reflexed margin.
Tree to 20 m, with a clear bole 30 cm ø and pendulous branches, or a slender, sometimes semi-scandent shrub, occurring in montane and mossy forest of varying composition (Nothofagus, Castanopsis, Araucaria); also in regrowth, 1200-2800 m.
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