Tree 12 m, 30 cm ø; bark soft, corky, creamy in colour. Branchlets initially densely yellowish brown, stiff, stellate-pubescent, soon glabrescent, greyish brown, sparsely lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid, 4-5 by 3-4 mm, scales narrowly ovate or linear. Stipules narrowly ovate-acute, 4-5 by 2-2½ mm. Leaves thick-coriaceous, rigid, 8½-14 by 3-5 cm (index 2-3), broadest at or above the middle; surfaces concolorous, greenish brown, sparsely stiff, stellate-pubescent on both sides, glabrescent; base acute, margin strongly revolute, top rounded to bluntly acute, tip emarginate; midrib and nerves strongly prominent beneath, flat to impressed above; nerves 6-8 pairs, subparallel, at an angle of 45-60°, arcuating but not anastomosing near the margin; reticulation subscalariform, fine, obscure to rather distinct beneath; petiole 5-6 mm, 3-4 mm ø, adaxially flat. Male rachis 10-15 cm, 3 mm ø, densely yellowish brown stiff stellate hairy; bracts narrowly ovate, 2-2½ by 1-1½ mm, bracteoles ovate, 1 by 1 mm; ♂ flowers in clusters of 3, filaments 3½-5 mm, anthers 0.3-0.35 mm long, pistillode subglobose, 1½-2 mm ø. Female flowers (seen as young fruit) solitary or in clusters of 2-3, staminodes well developed and exceeding the perianth, styles 3, terete, 3-4 mm long, recurved Ripe cupule sessile, woody, cup-shaped, 1½-2 cm long, 3¾-4½ cm ø; rim thin but rigid, covering ¼-⅓ part of the. fruit; inside densely silvery brown simple sericeous, outside densely fulvous stellate tomentose; scales ovate, adpressed, imbricate. Ripe fruit depressed ovoid-conical, 2-2 ⅓ cm long, 3-4 cm ø, glabrous, dark chocolate-brown; top rounded-acute, base rotundate, scar concave, 2-2½ cm ø; wall woody, up to 1 cm thick, for the greater part free from the cupule.
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