A large tree up to about 18 m. tall (sometimes more), with grey-brown coarsely reticulate bark and a dense rounded crown. Young branches velutinous with olive-golden hairs, later glabrescent and grey. Leaves broadly oblong-elliptic to obovate, up to 9.5–15 × 4.5–8.7 cm., rounded (sometimes emarginate) to shortly and obtusely acuminate, basally cordate, shining, brown and glabrous above except for the pubescent midrib, matt, yellow-green and pubescent beneath except when fully mature and then glabrous on the lamina; primary nerves very prominent beneath. Inflorescence paniculate, terminal or axillary, the racemes 4–6 cm. long, ± ascending; bracts linear-lanceolate, with the pedicels and calyx densely velutinous with olive-golden hairs. Calyx-tube ± 5 mm. long; the lobes ovate-deltoid to lanceolate. Petals white, oblong-elliptic, 5–5.5 mm. long. Fertile stamens 7–8, about 4 mm. long; filaments ± unevenly connate towards the base; anthers yellow; staminodes (1.0–)1.5–2.0 mm. long, irregularly connate in the lower half. Ovary sessile or nearly so, inserted dorsally near the receptacle-rim. Drupe velutinous, elliptic, 3.5 × 2 cm., very obtuse, slightly oblique-sided, olive-black. Fig. 8/1–4.
