Evergreen tree, (3–)18–35 m tall; bole fluted and buttressed in larger specimens, bark ashy grey or pale brown; ultimate branchlets terete, 4–5 mm wide, with reddish brown scurf when young, soon or at length lost, revealing a white, longitudinally ridged, epidermis; bud-scales not seen, caducous. Leaf-blade oblanceolate or elliptic, (2–)14–21 cm long, (0.8–)7–11 cm wide, apex acuminate, base acute to rounded, 12–15 pairs of main veins, quaternary veins conspicuous on both surfaces, leathery, glabrous; petiole terete, 1–100 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, pulvini with caducous reddish brown scurf; stipules triangular, ± 3–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, grey pubescent, caducous, seen only in buds. Inflorescences axillary, amongst the leaves, with fascicles of ± 6–10 flowers; bracts numerous, concave, rounded-triangular, 2–3 mm long, 2 mm across, apex entire, outer surface densely brown pubescent; flower stalk 6–9 mm long, articulation absent or obscure in flower, basal in fruit, with dense orange-red hairs. Flowers white or cream, perianth divided for 6/7 into 5 lobes each 4–7 mm long, 2–2.5 mm across, outer surface as stalk, inner densely hairy in upper half and densely and minutely papillate throughout. Male flowers with androphore terete ± 3 mm long, densely stellate-pubescent; anthers uniseriate, 5–6, glabrous, in a disc 1–1.5 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm diameter; ovary vestigial, concealed. Female flowers with androphore absent; anthers barely reduced, at base of ovary; ovary subglobose, ± 1.5 mm diameter, densely pale brown tomentose; style 1.5 mm long; stigmas 4, recurved, ± 1 mm long, 0.7 mm wide, papillose. Fruitlets 1–5, brown, downy, transverse ridges faint, two pairs, subglobose-obovoid ± 1.4 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, stipe ± 2 mm long, rostrum ± 1.5 mm diameter.
