Tree to 34 m tall, bole 45 cm diameter. Twigs densely velutinous with very short stellate hairs, glabrescent. Leaves 1-2-jugate. Petiole 3-9 cm, rachis if present 2-3.5 cm, densely stellate-velutinous. Leaflets ovate to oblong, 5-14 by 2.5-6.5 cm, apex acute to slightly acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, shortly decurrent; margin serrate to subentire; secondary veins 9-20 on either side of midrib; petiolule 10-17 mm in terminal leaflets and 1-3 mm in lateral ones; stipels minute or absent; blades above stellate-hairy with sunken venation, beneath very densely stellate-velutinous, the tomentum of dense layers of pale short curly hairs and scattered emergent ones together with ± numerous glandular trichomes, the venation prominent; domatia absent. Stipules orbicular or ovate-oblong, 7-17 by 7-10 mm, rounded at apex, entire, sessile, densely stellate-velutinous above and beneath. Inflorescence paniculate, up to c. 30 by 20 cm, subunits inserted at subdistal nodes; branches densely velutinous. Flowers pedicellate, the pedicels 1-1.5 mm long. Sepals 0.8-1.1 by 0.6-0.8 mm, densely stellate-hirsute below. Petals obovate-oblong or oblanceolate, 1.1-1.2 by 0.2-0.7 mm. Stamens with filaments 1.2-1.8 mm long and anthers c. 0.3 by 0.4 by 0.2 mm. Disc 0.2-0.4 mm high, 0.1-0.2 mm thick. Ovary (3-)4-5-carpellate, 0.6-0.8 by 0.5-0.7 mm, densely stellate-hirsute, each cell with c. 10 ovules; style 0.4-0.5 mm. Fruit with valves c. 4 by 1.2 mm, with several seeds. Seeds including wings c. 1.8 mm long, glabrous.
In mixed lower montane forest, including Nothofagus forest, also in open forest, secondary growth, and on forest edge, between 1600 and 2900 m altitude.
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