Tree to 35 m tall, 50 cm diameter. Twigs densely velutinous with short stellate hairs, glabrescent. Leaves 1-3-, mostly 2-jugate. Petiole 2-7 cm, internodes of rachis 1.5-5 cm, densely velutinous. Leaflets ovate-oblong, 4.5-17 by 2-9 cm, 10-15-nerved, apex acute or slightly acuminate, base obtuse to rounded or subcordate; margin minutely serrate; petiolule 1.5-4 cm in terminal leaflets, 2-5 mm in lateral ones; blades above sparse-ly to densely stellate-hirsute, glabrescent, with venation slightly sunken, below ± densely stellate-hirsute and sometimes with ± abundant glandular trichomes, the venation distinctly prominent; domatia absent. Stipules reniform or orbicular to ovate, 10-15 by 10-12 mm, rounded at apex, entire, sessile, sparsely stellate-hirsute or glabrous above, densely velutinous beneath. Inflorescences thyrsiform, c. 40-30 mm, inserted at subdistal nodes; branches densely stellate-velutinous, towards extremities sometimes with small glands. Flowers pedicellate, pedicels 0.3-1.2 mm long. Sepals 0.9-1.3 by 0.6-1 mm, ± densely stellate-hairy beneath. Petals obovate, elliptic-oblong or obovate-oblanceolate, 0.8-1.5 by 0.3-0.5 mm. Stamens with filaments 1.7-2.2 mm long and anthers 0.3-0.4 by 0.3-0.4 by 0.15-0.3 mm. Disc 0.2-0.3 high, 0.1 mm thick. Ovary 2-4-, mostly 3-carpellate, 0.6-0.7 by 0.5 mm, densely hairy, each cell with 8-10 ovules; styles 0.4-0.8 mm. Fruit with valves 2.8-3 by 1.1-1.2 mm, with several seeds. Seeds including wings c. 1.7-1.8 mm long, faintly papillose to glabrous.
In lower montane forest (including mixed coniferous, Nothofagus and Castanopsis forest), between 750 and 3100 m; also in secondary forest, particularly at the lower altitudes
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