Tree up to 25 m high; young branches puberulous, becoming glabrous; bark grey, smooth. Leaf-blade elliptic or ovate, 7-18 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, apex acuminate, acute or obtuse, cuneate and oblique at base, margins usually entire but sometimes serrate-crenate especially young and coppice shoot leaves, coriaceous, glabrous or puberulous on midrib when young, with circular and linear pellucid dots, lateral nerves 7-9, V2-angled, curved, more prominent on lower than upper side; petiole 0,1-2 cm long, channelled above, puberulous or glabrous, dark green and shiny. Flowers greenish, in dense, axillary fascicles on a cushion of minute, brown, membranous, ovate bracteoles with ciliate margins; pedicels 1-3 mm long, puberulous. Sepals 5, broadly elliptic, 3 mm long, 2 mm wide, puberulous dorsally. Staminal tube united for about 0,3-0,5 mm and then dividing into 10 fertile stamens and 10 alternating staminodes; filaments 1 mm long, glabrous; anthers ovate, 0,8 mm long, apiculate; staminodes 1 mm long, villous at apex. Ovary ovoid, 1,75 mm long, 1 mm wide, glabrou
