shrub or small tree, 3-5 m. tall, rusty-villous except for the upper leaf surface which is glabrescent or pubescent along the nerves only; twigs stout; leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, 16-25 cm. wide X 28-40 cm. long, apex acuminate, base inequilaterally rounded, obliquely retuse or shallowly cordate, peltate 3-6 cm. rom the margin, with 7-9 nerves radiating from the petiole, and the midrib with 3 or 4 branches on each side from the lower half, strongly rugose-bullate, drying firm and subopaque; petiole 5-7 cm. long, vaginate-winged to near the base of the blade; spikes up to 10 mm. thick and 35 cm. long when mature; peduncle 3-4 cm. long; bracts clavate, thickened and bristly at the top, pedicels bearded; fruit oblong-ovate, angular, glabrate; stigmas filiform, sessile.
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