Small or medium-sized tree. Outside of perianth +-persistently pale grey-brown cinereous; ovary, panicles, and twig apices caducously so; elsewhere glabrescent. Twig c. 3 mm ø apically, much branched, pale grey-brown, usually minutely rugulose. Buds small, ovoid; stipules to 8 mm long, linear, becoming reflexed. Leaves 6.5-20 by 2.2-8 cm, variable in size, elliptic-lanceolate, thinly coriaceous; base cuneate; acumen to 1.5 cm long, prominent; nerves 6-9 pairs, arched, ascending, slender and hardly more elevated beneath than above; petiole 10-18 mm long, smooth, drying black. Panicle to 9 cm long, terminal or subterminal axillary, many-flowered, irregularly branching. Flower bud to 10 by 3 mm, fusiform; appendages minute, hardly exceeding anthers; style columnar, longer than ovary, expanding somewhat distally below the small conical style; flowers otherwise typical. Fruit pedicel to 7 by 3 mm, prominent; calyx lobes to 5 mm ø, hemispherical, incrassate, ± adnate round the impressed base of the nut; nut to 3 by 3 cm, ovoid, subacute, with 3 distinct loculicidal furrows; pericarp thick, corky, verrucose.
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A tree. It grows 25 m tall. The leaves are narrowly oval to sword shaped. They are simple and arranged alternately. They are 7-20 cm long by 2-8 cm wide. The flowers are white or pale yellow and in the axils of leaves near the ends of branches. The fruit is a brown nut 3 cm wide.
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