Trees to 20 m tall. Trunk to 26 cm d.b.h., bark gray to brownish. Branchlets densely brownish tomentose. Petiole 1.5--2 cm; leaf blade oblong, oblong-lanceolate, or obovate-oblong, 5--9.5 X 1.5--3.5 cm, abaxially densely gray tomentose, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate, margin entire and slightly revolute, apex acuminate to obtuse, secondary veins 7--9 pairs, tertiary veins reticulate. Panicles terminal, 4--8 cm, densely gray tomentose. Pedicel 5--8 mm. Flowers ca. 7 mm. Calyx ca. 2 mm, densely yellow stellate tomentose; teeth 5, ovate-deltoid. Petals yellowish, oblong, ca. 6 X 2 mm, imbricate, apex acute. Filaments basally villose. Style ca. 6 mm, apically 3-parted, villose. Ovary ovoid, 4-locular, villose; ovules numerous.

ca. 1900 m. N Guangxi, SW Yunnan [Vietnam]