A tree, 40–100 ft. high; branchlets finely fulvous-tomentellous when quite young, very soon glabrous and reddish brown, rather stout. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, obtuse and often unequal at the base, abruptly contracted into a narrow acute acumen, 7–10 in. long, 1 3/4–3 in. broad, pale fulvous-tomentellous beneath in bud, very soon glabrescent; midrib moderately stout and prominent beneath; lateral nerves suboblique, almost straight, slender, prominent beneath, 15–18 on each side; petiole 3 1/2–5 lin. long, somewhat slender. Male inflorescences 1–2 in. long, fulvous-tomentellous; common peduncle very short; special peduncles up to 1 in. long, slender; bracts ovate, caducous; umbels capituliform, up to 10 lin. in diam., very many-flowered; pedicels up to 2 lin. long. Perianth 1 1/2 lin. long, fulvous-tomentellous without, glabrous within, 3-fid; lobes broad-ovate, obtuse. Staminal column slender; anthers 1/8 lin. long. Fruit (quite young) subglobose, 1 1/2 in. in diam., densely fulvo-tomentose.
