Moderate to large tree, reaching 45 m; bole 25 m, buttressed, dbh 1 m, or a shrub sometimes with semi-scandent branches; young shoots with appressed, often golden hairs. Leaves glabrous, chartaceous, el-liptic, broadly elliptic or oblong, 7-17 by 2.5-6 cm; base cuneate or attenuate; apex produced as an apiculum; margin entire or occasionally with a few small teeth; midrib prominent; lateral veins usually indis-tinct, arched and meeting within the margin; petiole 1-1.5 cm. Dioecious. Inflorescence of lateral or ter-minal pleiochasia or usually finely branched pan-icles, minutely hairy, c. 10-15 cm long; rachis bearing pairs or whorls of branches subtended by small bracts. Male flowers globose, 3-4 mm Ø; receptacle small; tepals 8, rounded; stamens numerous, connective projecting, anthers sessile. Female flowers with a coriaceous cupuliform receptacle, c. 4 mm Ø, with an irregularly cleft ostiole; carpels nu-merous, densely packed over the receptacle, ovoid with short style. Drupes numerous, ovoid, 8-10 by 4-5 mm (when dry), sessile on a leathery, pilose receptacle with a reflexed margin.
A tree to 45 m, though normally smaller and even shrubby; the branches sometimes sprawling or semi-scandent. Montane and mossy forest, asso-ciated with Nothofagus, Castanopsis, Lithocarpus, etc., also in regrowth and on scrubby slopes. Usually 500-1800 m, but occasionally descending almost to sea-level.
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