Tree, up to 33 m, 70 cm dbh. Axillary buds elliptic to oblong, (8-)ll-20(-30) by 6-12(-14) mm; scales flat, wrinkled, indistinctly nerved, more or less shiny, sometimes in middle part with 1-4 rather indistinct glands, base shortly attenuate, apex rounded to obtuse. Petiole 7-15 mm. Leaf-blade (3—)4.5—12 (-19) by (1.8-)2.5-5(-7.5) cm, apex shortly acuminate to cuspidate; above ± shiny, brownish green; beneath yellowish brown, secondary nerves 7—10(—12) pairs, not forming an intramarginal nerve; glands few to many, mostly situated in middle and apical part, 0.2-0.4 mm diam. Inflorescences branched; axes densely patently shortly hairy; lower bracts opposite. Flowers unknown. Fruit globular, up to 1.7 cm diam., shiny, brown, slightly hairy; pericarp rather soft; pedicel 1.5-2.5 mm, densely shortly patently hairy. Seed 1; 3 ovules abortive.