Tree 5-12 m, 20-30 cm ø. Branchlets initially angular, densely stellate hairy, later terete, glabrous, greyish black, densely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid-ellipsoid, 3-5 by 2-3 mm, scales narrowly ovate to linear. Stipules linear-acute, 6-8 by 1 mm. Leaves thin-coriaceous, (3½-)5-6(-8) by (1½-)2½-3(-3½) cm (index 2-2.7), broadest at or below the middle; surfaces concolorous, greenish, above glabrous, dull to glossy, beneath with a thin cover of adpressed, minute, stellate hairs; base acute to rarely rounded-acute, margin recurved, top bluntly acute to 1-2 cm acuminate; midrib prominent beneath, slightly so above; nerves (6-)7-8(-10) pairs, thin, flat beneath, impressed above, parallel, at an angle of 40-50°, arcuating but not anastomosing towards the margin; reticulation fine, subscaliform to irregular, obscure; petiole 4-6 mm, 1 mm ø, adaxially flat. Inflorescence male or androgynous, simple and axillary or much-branched and subterminal, densely fulvous stellate hairy; bracts and bracteoles linear, 2-3 by ½-1 mm. Male rachis 3-5 cm, 1-1½ mm ø; ♂ flowers solitary or in clusters of 3, filaments 2-2½ mm, anthers 0.25-0.3 mm long, pistillode subglobose, 1 mm ø. Androgynous rachis 3-5 cm, 1-1½ mm ø; female flowers solitary, staminodes rather well-developed but not exceeding the perianth, styles 3, conical, 1 mm. Cupule (not fully developed) sessile, cup-shaped, ½-1 cm long, 1⅓-1½ cm ø; rim thin, covering c. ⅓ part of the fruit; wall woody, thin, inside densely silky tomentose by adpressed simple hairs, outside densely fulvous stellate hairy; scales distinct, narrowly ovate, 1 mm long, imbricate but concentrically set. Ripe fruit ovoid, 1½ cm long, 1 cm ø, glabrous, chocolate-brown, top acute, base rotun-date, scar flat to concave, 7 mm ø; wall woody 1 mm thick, for the greater part free from the cupule.
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