Trees to 6 m tall; most parts dirty yellow pubescent. Petiole ca. 8 mm; leaf blade elliptic to oblong, 9--13.5 X 3.5--4.5 cm, leathery, base rounded, apex acuminate, lateral veins 7--9 per side and raised on both surfaces, reticulate veinlets dense and conspicuously raised on both surfaces. Male flowers with calyx brown strigose, lobes 4; corolla urnlike-tubular, ca. 6 mm, outside densely yellowish brown puberulous; stamens 16; pistillode densely rusty bearded at apex. Female flowers not seen. Fruiting pedicel 3--12 mm, sometimes bracteate near base; bracts linear, 3--4.5 mm. Fruiting calyx lobes 4, reflexed, narrowly triangular, ca. 8 mm. Berries brown, ca. 2.5 cm in diam., base densely appressed yellowish tomentose. Fr. Nov.

* Yunnan.