A handsome tree 15–30 ft. high or more; trunk 1–1 1/2 ft. in diam. at the base; branches spreading; branchlets stout, more or less tomentose when young. Leaves sessile, crowded at the tips of the branchlets, obovate-cuneate or elongate-obovate, rounded or truncate, attenuated to the base, 4–11 in. long, 2–6 in. broad, rigidly coriaceous, bright green, rather rough and glabrous above, pubescent with interlacing hairs below, becoming nearly glabrous when older; lateral nerves 12–17 on each side, in the older leaves diverging almost at right angles from the midrib, indistinctly looped almost at the margin, undivided, prominent on the lower surface; tertiary nerves numerous, parallel; stipules filiform, about 1/2 in. long, densely pilose. Male heads crowded towards the ends of the branchlets; peduncle 1/2 in. long, deeply grooved. Bracts of the involucre oblong-elliptic, obtuse, about 4 lin. long and 2 lin. broad, slightly pubescent outside. Calyx irregularly lobed; lobes sparingly pilose at the apex. Filaments glabrous. Rudimentary ovary broadly obconic, densely pilose towards the top. Young female flowers not seen. Fruits 4-celled, subglobose, slightly over 1 in. in diam., covered with numerous lenticels, glabrous. Pyrenes 2-grooved on the back.
