Tree c. 40 m by 80 cm. Bark green. Wood creamy, porous. Young branchlets rufous-tomentellous and retaining their indumentum for a considerable time. Leaves spirally arranged along the branches, chartaceous, at first densely rufous-tomentellous, later glabrescent above but retaining their indumentum especially on the nerves and reticulation beneath, rather obscurely minutely verruculose above, pellucid-punctate, elliptic or more rarely obovate-ellptic, 8½-18 by 3½-9 cm, usually somewhat acuminate at both apex and base; nerves 9-12 pairs, domatia not conspicuous; petiole rufous-tomentellous, 1-3 cm. Flowers sessile, cream, subglobose in bud, spikes axillary, 7-20 cm long, with mainly ♂ flowers towards the apex and hermaphrodite flowers towards the base; rachis rufous-tomentose, bracts 1 mm long, very early caducous. Lower receptacle (ovary) densely rufous-tomentose or tomentellous, 1.5 mm long; upper receptacle little developed, c. 0.5 by 1.5 mm. Calyx lobes somewhat recurved, deltoid, 1.75 mm long. Filaments glabrous, 3 mm, pale green with brownish anthers. Disk barbate. Style 2.5 mm. Fruit tomentellous when young becoming glabrous when mature, oblong-ellpsoid, usually scarcely compressed, 2½-3½ by 1-3—7½ cm, rather obscurely longitudinally ridged, showing in cross-section a sclerenchymatous inner layer extended radially in spoke-like projections.
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