Small trees or shrubs 5-20 m tall; bark grayish brown or brown gray; branchlets reddish brown; branchlets and petioles grayish brown velutinous, then glabrescent, or sparsely appressed pubescent. Stipules linear, 1-2 cm; petiole 1-9 cm; leaf blade adaxially green, then light green, becoming grayish green when dry, elliptic, oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 8-33 × 3.5-12 cm, papery, 3-veined, basal pair reaching middle margin, secondary veins 8-12 pairs, reticulate, abaxial surface densely villous or sparsely pubescent on veins, or sometimes tomentose, adaxial surface glabrous, base rounded or obtuse, margin denticulate to middle, entire apically, apex caudate to long caudate-acuminate. Inflorescences in axils of fallen leaves or on older branches, dichotomously branched 2 or 3 times, 1.5-2.5 cm; glomerules 4-5 mm in diam. Male flowers: perianth lobes 4, oblong, connate 1/2 of length, ca. 1.2 mm; rudimentary ovary subclavate. Female flowers ca. 1 mm. Achene conic, ca. 1.5 mm, 3-or 4-ribbed, surrounded by a fleshy discoid cupule at base. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Jul-Sep.
Rain forests, valleys, at elevations of 200-1,400 metres in southern China. Understorey trees in disturbed wet evergreen forests at elevations between 300-1,400 metres in India.
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