Trees or shrubs. Branchlets brown pubescent when young. Petiole 2.5-3 cm, brown pubescent; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, 13-18 × 5-6.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially sparsely stellate pilose on veins, adaxially glabrous, basal veins 5, impressed adaxially, base rounded, apex rounded or acute. Infructescences terminal or subterminal, apparently few-flowered. Flowers not seen. Fruiting stipe 3-5 cm; capsule ellipsoid-obovoid, 5-angled, 4.5-5 cm, brown stellate pubescent. Seeds ca. 3 cm including wing. Fr. Jun.