Medium-sized tree with pale flaky bark. Twig, leaf bud, stipule and petiole persistently densely evenly buff sericeous, nervation and midrib above sparsely so. Twig c. 3 by 2 mm ø apically, compressed, drying rugose at first, becoming terete, smooth; stipule scar prominent, almost amplexicaul. Bud c. 1 by 2 mm, lanceolate, acute. Stipule to 25 by 20 mm, oblong-lan-ceolate, subacute, caducous. Leaves 14-18 by 7-10 cm, broadly ovate, elliptic, coriaceous; base obtuse to cordate; acumen short, broad; nerves 11-13 pairs, stout, prominent beneath, at 50°-70°; tertiary nerves slender, densely scalariform, unraised; midrib applanate to somewhat depressed above, prominent beneath; petiole 23-35 mm long, terete. Flowers unknown. Panicle to 15 cm long, terminal or axillary, terete, smooth or rugulose, densely shortly evenly pale buff pubescent, singly branched; bracteoles to 16 by 5 mm, lanceolate, acute, densely pubescent outside, sparsely so within. Fruit calyx and pedicel sparsely evenly buff pubescent. Pedicel short, stout. 3 longer calyx lobes to 7 by 1.5 cm, spatulate, subacute, c. 5 mm broad above the to 6 by 5 mm ovate saccate thickened base; 2 shorter lobes to 25 by 3 mm, linear, similar at base. Nut to 10 by 7 mm, ovoid, glabrous, acute.
A canopy tree of ridges and hill forests. Swampy pole forest on organic soils on poorly drained plateaux over acid and also basic volcanic rocks and sandsrone, at elevations from 800-1,200 metres.
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Volcanic plateaux at 800-1200 m; locally abundant.
Can be grown by seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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