Tree 13-14 m, c. 15 cm ø; bark smooth, grey-brown. Branchlets rufous-brownish tomentose and slightly many-grooved lengthwise as are petioles and rachises in dry specimens. Leaves lax, sub-obovate-elliptic or-oblong, apex subacutely acu-minate for c. 1.5 cm, base rounded in general, the very base short-cordate and the lamina almost peltate, firmly chartaceous, olivaceous-brownish and dull above, more rufescent beneath in dry specimens, ± deeply bullate by nerves, veins and partly also veinlets above, these well prominent beneath, glabrous above except the short-tomentose midrib and maybe nerves, brownish-rufous-tomentose and soft to the touch by obliquely erect stellate or fascicled longish hairs all over the undersurface especially on midrib, nerves and veins, moreover covered all over beneath with a coherent greyish silvery layer of small star-shaped, flat, appressed scales each with a minute dark centre (similar to stellate flattish hairs), 14-32 by (6-)7-13 cm, nerves 7-10(-12) pairs moderately curved-ascending and looping, reticulation fine and dense, minutely raised above, rather obscure beneath; petiole 2-2.5 cm by 2-3 mm. ♂ Inflorescences (only known in juvenile state) axillary, paniculate, with few dense-flowered, much spaced, subspicate racemes or short-branched panicles, 1.5-3 cm; rachis 6-12 cm by 2-3 mm.
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