Trees to 30 m tall, deciduous. Branchlets grayish brown, glabrous. Laf blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 8-15cm long, 4-6 cm wide, abaxially densely grayish stellate tomentose, base rounded to broadly cuneate, margin with spiniform teeth, apex acuminate; secondary veins 13-16 on each side of midvein; tertiary veins abaxially slender, evident; petiole 1-3(5)cm, glabrous. Female inflorescences axillary on apical part of young shoot. Fruits cupule cupular, ca. 1.5 x 2.5-4 cm including bracts, enclosing 2/3 of nut; bracts subulate, inflexed, pilose; nuts subglobose to broadly ovoid, ca. 1.5 cm in diameter, apex rounded, pale brown sericeous; scar ca. 1 cm in diameter, raised.

Flowering late April to May
Fruiting the following year of flowering (early September to October).