Tree or shrub, 2-25 m, 20-100 cm ø; bark grey-brown, smooth to scaly, lenticellate. Branchlets densely set with yellowish brown to rufous short stellate hairs and erect glandular tuft-hairs with bulbous base, later subglabrous, greyish brown, sparsely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid, 3 by 2 mm, scales narrowly ovate-acute. Stipules linear, 3-6 by 1-2 mm. Leaves coriaceous, rigid, (4-)5-8(-9) by (3-)4(-5) cm (index (1.2-)1.3-1.8(-2)), broadest at or below the middle; surfaces discolor-ous, above pale to dark chocolate-brown, dull to glossy, sparsely pubescent, glabrescent, beneath with a thick cover of yellowish brown to rufous, adpressed stellate hairs and erect, glandular tuft-hairs; base acute, rounded or subcordate, margin recurved, top bluntly acute to ½- acuminate; midrib strongly prominent beneath, slightly so above; nerves (7-)8-10(-12) pairs, prominent beneath, impressed above, subparallel, at an angle of 40-50°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation lax, subscalariform, obscure tor ather distinct beneath; petiole 6-12 mm, 1-2 mm ø, terete or adaxially flat. Inflorescence male or androgynous, in dense subterminal or axillary paniculate clusters, densely fulvous to rufous stellate hairy, hairs glandular; bracts and bracte-oles ovate-acute, 1 by ⅔ mm. Male rachis 3-5 cm, 1½-2 mm ø; ♂ flowers solitary or in clusters of 2-3, filaments 2½-3 mm, anthers 0.25 mm long, pistillode globose, ⅔-1 mm ø. Androgynous rachis 3-4 cm, 2 mm ø; female flowers solitary, staminodes rudimentary, styles 3, conical, 1-1½ mm, connate at the base. Ripe cupule sessile, cup-shaped, 1-1¼ cm long, 2-2¼ cm ø; rim thin, covering c. ¼ part of the fruit; wall woody, thin, inside densely fulvous tomentose by adpressed simple hairs, outside densely fulvous to rufous stellate hairy; scales minute, adpressed or free, ovate, in concentric rows. Ripe fruit conical, 2½-3 cm long, 1½-2 cm ø, glabrous, dark chocolate-brown, top acute, base rotundate, scar flat to slightly convex, 1 cm ø; wall woody, 1-2 mm thick, for the greater part free from the cupule.
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