Tree up to 30 m by 75 cm. Young branchlets rather stout, rufous-or silvery-tomentose or sericeous soon glabrescent. Leaves chartaceous to subcoriaceous, spirally arranged along the branch-lets or often crowded towards their tips, appressed-pubescent when young, usually glabrous or nearly glabrous when mature, sometimes rufous-pubescent on the nerves beneath, sometimes rather sparsely or more densely minutely verruculose above and at times beneath, usually opaque or very obscurely pellucid-punctate, sometimes somewhat glaucous beneath, obovate, narrowly obovate or obovate-ellptic, 6-19 by 2½-10 cm, rounded, shortly acuminate or obtuse at the apex, narrowly cuneate at the base; nerves 6-8 pairs, rather widely spaced, domatia usually present, mostly glabrous; petiole usually glabrous sometimes sparsely appressed-pubescent, 1-2½ cm, usually with 2 glands at or near the middle. Flowers sessile, in axillary spikes 10-16 cm long, rhachis appressed-pubescent or glabrous. Bracts filiform, hairy, 2 mm. Lower receptacle (ovary) rufous-tomentose or sericeous 2-2½ mm long; upper receptacle scarcely developed. Calyx-lobes triangular pubescent or nearly glabrous, 2 by 1½ mm. Filaments glabrous, 3-4 mm; anthers ½ mm long. Disk barbate. Style glabrous 3-4 mm. Fruit hairy at first, glabrous when mature, sub-globose or ovoid, slightly laterally compressed (sometimes appearing more flattened due to drying), 3½-5 by 3-4 cm, showing in cross-section thin irregular bands of sclerenchyma enclosing masses of alveolar tissue, the whole surrounded by a layer 3-5 mm thick of a spongy or fibrous nature.
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