Tree to 20 m tall. Twigs densely hirsute with very short and a few longer stellate hairs to 0.3 mm, glabrescent. Leaves 2-3-jugate. Petiole 1.2-3 cm, internodes of rachis 0.8-2 cm, densely and very shortly stellate-hirsute. Leaflets elliptic, 2.5-7 by 1.5-3.2 cm, apex obtuse and shortly acuminate, base obtuse to rounded or subcordate, very shortly decurrent; margin serrate; secondary veins 8-12 on either side of midrib; indumentum of stel-late hairs above and beneath, glabrescent, with fairly numerous glandular trichomes on lower surface; the major venation sunken above and beneath. Petiolule in terminal leaflets 8-15 mm, 3-6 mm in lateral ones. Tuft-domatia sometimes present in axils of secondary veins. Stipules orbicular to ovate, 7-12 by 7-10 mm, apex rounded, margin entire, glabrous above, fairly densely stellate-hirsute below. Inflorescences paniculate, up to c. 25 by 15 cm, inserted at subdistal nodes; branches densely stellate-hirsute. Flowers pedicellate, the pedicels 0.8-2 mm long. Sepals c. 1.2 by 0.9 mm, fairly densely stellate-hirsute beneath. Petals obovate, c. 1.3 by 0.6 mm, narrowed at base. Stamens with filaments c. 1.8 mm long and anthers c. 0.4 by 0.4 by 0.2 mm. Disc c. 0.4 mm high, 0.3 mm thick. Ovary 3-or 4-carpellate, c. 0.8 by 1 mm, densely stellate-hirsute; ovules 8-10 per locule; style c. 0.8 mm. Fruit with valves 2.5-3 mm long by 1-1.2 mm wide, containing several seeds. Seeds including wings c. 1.5 mm long, smooth.
In lower montane forest, including Podocarpus and Nothofagus forest, as a canopy tree or usually in the second storey; also in secondary forest and low mossy forest. Locally common. From 2100-2850 m
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