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Female flower: calyx 4 mm in diameter, patelliform, scarcely lobed; ovary 5 × 3–4 mm, ellipsoid-subglobose, 3–4-locular, densely whitish or fulvous-to ferrugineous-tomentose; styles 3–4 capping the ovary, 3–3.5 mm long, multifid-flabelliform, the segments linear, terete, almost smooth, abaxially pubescent, adaxially glabrous, yellow at first, later turning dark brown.
A spreading tree. It is often stunted and gnarled. It grows 7 m tall. The bark is grey to black and rough. The leaves are large and stiff. They are broadly oval and 6-23 cm long by 5-17 cm wide. They are hairy underneath. The fruit are oval and 3 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. They are hairy when young. They loose their hairs and turn yellow when ripe.
A much-branched spreading, often stunted, shrub or small tree up to 7 m high, with gnarled divaricate branches often arising from near the ground, and with a more or less rounded crown; bark longitudinally or quadrately deeply-fissured, grey to black or brownish-black.
Male peduncles 1–2(3) cm long, 0–1-bracteolate, often glabrous; inflorescence bracts 9–12, variable, 6–9 × 2–6 mm, elliptic-lanceolate to broadly elliptic, glabrous, the outer sepaloid and reddish-brown, the inner petaloid and yellow; head 6–9 mm in diameter.
Male flowers: calyx lobes 5, 0.5–1 mm long, filiform, acute or truncate, sparingly pubescent; stamens 5, filaments 2 mm long, flattened, anthers c. 1 × 1 mm, creamy-yellow; pistillode 1.5 mm high, infundibuliform, densely pubescent.
Fruits 3 × 2.5 cm, ellipsoid, smooth, densely ferrugineous-tomentose at first, later partially glabrescent, yellowish when fresh, reddish-brown when dried.
Female peduncles 3–4 mm long, extending to 5 mm in fruit, pubescent; bracts as in male.
Young twigs (0.7)1–1.5 cm in diameter, stout, densely floccose or tomentose.
Stipules 1–2.5 cm long, subulate-filiform, densely tomentose, soon falling.
Inflorescences usually borne among or just below the leaves.
Leaves petiolate; petioles 1–8 cm long, fairly stout.
Pyrenes and seeds more or less as in U. kirkiana.
