Tree to 13 m tall; young stems densely coarsely ferruginous pubescent. Leaves oblong to oblong-obovate, 6–18.5 cm long, 3.3–10.5 cm wide, rounded to truncate and shortly and abruptly acuminate at the apex, sometimes deeply and irregularly incised, rounded, sometimes slightly asymmetric, at the base, margin coarsely serrate, scabrid-pubescent above, with denser pubescence on the veins, densely pubescent beneath and concolorous; petiole 5–8 mm long, densely pubescent; stipules unequal, winged on one side. Inflorescence a 1–3-flowered cyme, 1–2 in a leaf-axil, covered with a dense ferruginous pubescence; peduncle 11–20 mm long; pedicels 8–14 mm long. Flowers yellow; sepals 11–15 mm long; petals broadly obovate to subcircular, 3–6 mm long. Androgynophore glabrous for 1.5–3 mm long, cup-like and densely pubescent at the apex; stamens 8–13 mm long; ovary ± 2 mm long, densely hairy, stipitate; style 7–9 mm long. Fruit 2-lobed, or unlobed by abortion, the lobes 7–12 mm long, 7–10 mm wide, with a few scattered long hairs, green when unripe. Fig. 4/52 (leaf, p. 11).
