Tree 10-23 m, sometimes buttressed; bark smooth; innovations rusty-tomentose, branchlets soon glabrescent; lenticels oblong, pallid. Leaves oblong or mostly ovate-oblong, gradually attenuate to the apex, sometimes rather abruptly (½-1½ cm) acuminate, subacute, broadly cuneate to rounded at the base, glabrous, shining and olivaceous-brownish above when dry, dull, pallid and dilutely yellowish-brownish beneath, undersurface laxly covered with fine, appressed, pallid hairs, more densely so to nearly hirsute on the midrib and nerves, 20-32 by 9-14 cm; midrib little raised above, very prominent beneath, nerves curved-ascending, rather distinctly anastomosing near the margin, rather flat above, prominent beneath, veins transverse-parallel, manifestly prominent beneath, reticulations dense and little prominent on both sides; petiole ferrugineous-tomentose, soon glabrescent. ♂ Racemes 20-30 cm, densely, finely rusty-tomentose, flowers only known in very young buds. ♀ Flowers (seen only below developed ovary): sepals and petals 3 mm; staminodes 4-5, manifestly pilose, 1 mm. Ovary appressed-ferrugineous-tomentose, the 2 sessile, ± rounded-reniform stigmas very close together. Peduncle c. 2 mm. Nearly mature fruit depressed-globose, ferrugineous-tomentose to glabrescent, minutely verrucose, (1-)2-seeded, c. 2.5 by 1.5 cm; pericarp thin, fragile; stigmas 2, c. 2-3 mm spaced.
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A tree. It grows 10-23 m high. Sometimes it has buttresses. The bark is smooth. Young growth is finely hairy but this disappears quickly. The leaves are oblong and can taper towards the tip. They can be rounded at the base. They are shiny and green-brown on top but dull and pale underneath. There are hairs underneath especially near the midrib. The leaves are 20-32 cm long by 9-14 cm wide. The leaf stalk has rusty hairs which fall off. The male flower stalks can be 20-30 cm long. The fruit is round and flattened. It can have brown hairs which come off.
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