Trees tall. Branchlets of last-year growth with a thin layer of grayish wax, conspicuously lenticellate near nodes. Petiole 1-1.5 cm; leaf blade lanceolate-oblong to obovate, 15-32 × 4-10 cm, leathery, abaxially grayish, base broadly cuneate, margin entire or undulate-dentate from middle to apex, apex acuminate to shortly caudate; secondary veins 13-17 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially slender, evident. Female inflorescence with cupules in clusters of 2 or 3, rarely solitary. Cupule subglobose, 3-3.2(-5) × 2.9-3(-3.8) cm, completely enclosing nut, apically flat; bracts imbricate to spirally arranged apically on cupule, rhomboid, squamose, with grayish waxy scalelike trichomes; midvein slightly raised and conspicuous. Nut subglobose, ca. 2 cm in diam.; scar covering more than 1/2 of nut, convex. Fl. Jul-Oct, fr. Aug-Dec of following year.
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