Tree up to 30 m; bark grey-brown; innovations and young branchlets rather dark rusty-tomentose or nearly hirsute, somewhat striate; lenticels elliptic. Leaves mostly oblong, sometimes obovate-oblong, rarely lanceolate-oblong, acutely or obtusely acuminate, cuneate to rounded at the base, subcoriaceous, densely rusty-hirsute on both sides when very young, but glabrous when adult, rather dull and greenish-olivaceous or-glaucous above when dry, yellowish-olivaceous and much paler beneath, 6½-12 by 2¾-4½ cm; midrib and 5-6 pairs of suberect nerves rather obscure above, very prominent beneath, veins ± indistinctly transverse, reticulations little prominent above, more so beneath; petiole initially rusty-tomentose, soon glabrescent, 1.5-2.5 cm, 1 mm diam. Inflorescences mostly in the axils of the upper leaves, sometimes also from lower defoliate parts; ♂ ferrugineous-tomentose, 3½-6 cm long, rhachis slender; female ones seen only in fruiting state, somewhat stouter, c. 4-5 cm long. Calyx lobes ovate, c. 1.5 mm. Petals 4, ovate-oblong, 2 by 1 mm; scales ovate, c. 0.5 mm. ♂ Flowers: column glabrous, 1.5-2 mm. ♀ Flowers not yet known. Immature fruit subglobose, fulvous-tomentose, (1-)2-seeded, with 2 sessile, subreniform stigmas; peduncle 1.5 mm.
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