Tree 15-30 m, 20-70 cm ø; bark greyish brown to dark brown, smooth to scaly, lenticellate. Branchlets initially densely yellowish brown tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs, late glabres-cent, slender, fissured to flaky, sparsely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid-ellipsoid, 3-4 by 2-3 mm, scales ovate to linear-acute. Stipules linear-acute, 3-4 by ⅓-½ mm, soon caducous. Leaves more or Jess coriaceous, (7-)10-12(-16) by 3-6 cm (index 2-3.7), broadest at or slightly above the middle; surfaces discolorous, above glabrous, glossy, greyish brown, underneath densely yellowish tomentose by adpressed stellate hairs; base acute to cuneate, rarely rounded, margin recurved, top abruptly acute to ½-1 cm acuminate, with a blunt tip; midrib strongly prominent beneath, impressed above; nerves (5-)7-8(-9) pairs, more or less prominent beneath, impresssed above, parallel, at an angle of 45-70°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation dense, fine, scalariform, distinct beneath; petiole 1-2 cm, 1-2½ mm ø, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male or androgynous, densely yellowish brown tomentose by short stellate hairs; bracts and bracteoles ovate-acute, 1-1½ by ⅓-½ mm. Male rachis 5-10 cm, 1 mm ø; ♂ flowers in clusters of 3 or solitary, perianth 6-lobed, stamens 12, filaments 1⅓-1½ mm, anthers 0.25 mm long, pistillode subglobose, c. 1 mm ø. Androgynous rachis c. 10 cm, 2 mm ø; female flowers solitary, perianth 6-lobed, staminodes 12, rudimentary, styles 3, conical, 1-1½ mm, recurved. Ripe cupule 1-1½ cm stalked, ellipsoid, up to 10 by 6 cm, covering the fruit completely; wall woody, 3-5 mm thick, outside densely yellowish brown tomentose by short stellate hairs, longitudinally ridged especially when young, with 5-8 undulating lamellae; base attenuate-rounded, top rotundate-umbonate. Ripe fruit ellipsoid, 5-7 cm long, 4-5 cm ø; wall woody, ½-1½ cm thick, for the greater part adnate to the cupule, scar rounded-attenuate, free part convex, umbonate, densely yellowish brown tomentose by simple hairs; cotyledons flat-convex.
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