Trees ca. 20 m tall. Petiole ca. 2 cm; leaf blade elliptic, 15-25 × 10-12 cm, abaxially with sparse appressed hairs, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate to broadly cuneate and decurrent on petiole, margin entire, apex cuspidate; midvein flat above or slightly impressed; secondary veins ca. 11 on each side of midvein. Infructescence rachis 7-12 cm, ca. 1 cm thick. Cupule globose, completely enclosing nut, wall 4-6 mm thick; bracts ca. 1 cm, curved, sericeous-puberulent. Nuts turbinate, ca. 2.5 × 2.8 cm, appressed tomentulose, base narrow, apex depressed; scar covering ca. 2/3 of nut, convex.

* 800-2000 m. SE Xizang (Mêdog Xian)