Tree, 20-35 m, 30-60 cm ø; bark smooth, grey. Branchlets initially densely brownish pubescent, hairs stiff, simple or stellate, glabrous, lenticellate; terminal buds ovoid-globose, ½-1 by ½ cm, the scales in four vertical rows. Stipules linear-acute, tomentose, 10-15 by 1-2 mm. Leaves thick-coriaceous, elliptic or obovate-oblong, 8-15 by 3-6 cm; above glabrous, beneath densely pubescent, soon glabrescent; base acute or attenuate-rounded, top ½-1 cm acuminate; margin remotely serrulate in the apical half; midrib and nerves prominent beneath, flattened or impressed above; nerves 10-15 pairs, dense, parallel and straight, arcuating near the margin at an angle of c. 60°; reticulation dense, scalariform, prominent beneath; petiole 1-2½ cm, glabrous, adaxially flat. Male rachis 5-10 cm; bracts lanceolate or linear-acute, membranous, 3-5 by 2-3 mm; ♂ flowers: perianth densely tomentose, filaments 3-4 mm, anthers c. 1 by 1 mm. Female rachis 1-1½ cm, carrying 4-6 flowers; bracts ovate or linear, 2-3 by 1 mm; staminodes none, styles 1-2 mm. Ripe cupule cup-shaped, obconical, base attenuate, 1.5-1.7 cm high, 1-2½ cm ø, covering ⅓-1/6 part of the fruit; lamellae 7-8, densely tomentose rim crenate and thick. Fruit cylindrical-conical or ellipsoid, 3-3.7 by 1.3-1.7 cm, tomentose, top acute, base convex.
Forests, 1200-2300 m, on brownish soil. Fl. Jan.-Febr. and June, fr. Febr.-April and July.
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