Petiole 2-3 cm; leaf blade abaxially pale green, adaxially deep green, ovate-oblong, 9-13 × 7-9 cm, subleathery, unlobed, both surfaces smooth, base rounded, margin reflexed, denticulate. Male flowers paniculate; peduncle 8-15 cm, slightly puberulent; bracts ovate-orbicular, ca. 1 × 0.8 cm, margin triangular-bidentate to middle, apex acuminate; calyx tube cylindric, ca. 2 × 0.5 cm; segments ca. 7 mm, long acuminate. Female flowers unknown. Fruiting peduncle ca. 3 cm; fruit orange-yellow, globose, ca. 7 cm, smooth. Seeds brown, broadly oblong to suborbicular, ca. 1.8 × 1.5 cm, both surfaces densely rugose, margin undulate-crenate. Fl. autumn, fr. Nov-Dec.

● Evergreen broad-leaved forests; 600-1500 m. SE Xizang, S and SE Yunnan.