Tree, to 20 m tall and 25 cm dbh; branches puberulent when young. Petioles to 5 mm long; blades oblongelliptic, often weakly inequilateral, long-acuminate, acute to rounded at base, 6-15 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, conspicuously pellucid-punctate or pellucid-lineolate, finely crenulate-serrate; veins puberulent. Fascicles dense, stalked; peduncles to 4 mm long; pedicels to 4 mm. long, articulated near middle; pedicels and calyces densely short-pubescent; flowers white to greenish; calyx 4-4.5 mm. long, the lobes 5, united at base, persistent in fruit; corolla lacking; stamens 10, slightly shorter than calyx lobes; filaments unequal; staminodia shorter than shortest anthers, cupular, villous at apex; ovary pubescent at apex; style short, simple; stigma globular. Capsules subglobose, apiculate, 4-5 mm long, pilose at apex, 3-valved, splitting at maturity; seeds 1-6, pyriform, brown, punctate; aril orange, fimbriate-lacerate. Croat 11779, 16210.