Small tree; branchlets red-brown when dry, appressed-ferrugineous-pubescent, rather soon glabrescent, subterete; lenticels elliptic or mostly elongate-elliptic. Leaves acute-acuminate, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, brownish-olivaceous, somewhat shining and glabrous when dry, greyish-greenish, pale and dull beneath, nerves and veins as well as under surface mostly laxly covered with very small appressed pallid hairs, or glabrous, (11-)13-20(-22) by (5-)6-9(-12) cm; midrib slightly grooved above, very prominent into the apex beneath, nerves 5-6 pairs, curved-ascending and manifestly anastomosing near the margin, nearly flat above, very prominent beneath, veins rather densely reticulate, prominent specially beneath; petiole 2½-4(-9) cm, brown when dry, dark ferrugineous-pubescent, soon glabrescent, longitudinally striate. ♂ Racemes axillary or cauline, 8-12 cm, slender, spiciform; rhachis ± densely ferrugineous-pilose. Pedicels 3 mm. Calyx lobes ovate, ferrugineous-pilose outside, nearly glabrous inside, c. 3 mm diam. Petals oblong, acuminate, dark red when dry, c. 3 by 2 mm; scale ovate, golden-villous, 2 mm. Column of filaments glabrous, 4 mm. ♀ Racemes solitary or in fascicles of 2-3, cauliflorous; rhachis rather stout, 2 mm thick, pendent in anthesis, angular, 20-30 cm, rather densely ferrugineous-pilose. Pedicels 1.5 mm. Calyx lobes and petals a little larger than in the male flowers. Staminodes 5, reduced to short filaments. Ovary ovoid-subglobose, densely ferrugineous-hirsute. Fruit 1.5-2 by 2-2.5 cm, brown-hirsute and rugose; pedicel thick, 2 mm.
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