Trees to 7 m tall. Buds, young petioles, and young leaf blades abaxially reddish brown tomentose. Young branchlets densely brown villous; old branchlets glabrous. Petiole 1--1.8 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, 7--15 X 2.5--5.5 cm, thickly leathery, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire, apex acute to rounded, lateral veins 8--13 pairs and adaxially impressed. Inflorescences a glomerule; bracts orbicular, ca. 3 mm in diam., with dense long hairs. Ovary 1--1.5 mm, glabrous. Calyx glabrous; lobes oblong, 1.5--2 mm. Corolla ca. 6 mm. Stamens 35--50. Disc annular, glabrous. Drupes cylindrical, ca. 1 cm, apex with persistent erect calyx lobes 2.5--3 mm. Fl. and fr. Apr-Nov.

* Slopes in mixed forests; 900--1100 m. Fujian, Guangdong.