Trees ca. 6 m tall. Branchlets pubescent to glabrescent with minute scurfy hairs intermixed with unguicular scales. Petiole 3-5 cm, with similar pubescence as branchlets; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, ca. 33 × 11 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially densely brown scurfy-puberulent, with sparse scales on midvein and lateral veins, adaxially glabrous but scaly on midvein, lateral veins 25-34 pairs, base cuneate, margin finely biserrate, apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescences ca. 5 cm, axillary, 1-3-fascicled, 2-or 3-flowered, glabrous, scaly; pedicels slender; bracts broadly elliptic, ca. 4 mm. Flowers pinkish white, large, 1.8-2 cm in diam. Sepals: outer 2 broadly elliptic, inner 3 narrowly elliptic to orbicular, enlarged when in fruit. Petals oblong, ca. 1.2 × 1.1 cm. Stamens ca. 90. Ovary subglobose, ribbed; styles 5, connate below middle. Fruit unknown. Fl. and fr. unknown.
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An evergreen tree. It grows 6 m tall. The young branches are hairy. The leaves are narrowly oval and 33 cm long by 11 cm wide. There are brown hairs underneath the leaves. The flowers are small and white but change to pink. The fruit are round berries.
It is a subtropical plant. In Sikkim it grows between 300-1,200 m above sea level. In Tibet it grows in broad-leaved forests on mountains between 700-1,700 m above sea level.
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