A large evergreen tree up to 15 m. Bark smooth, grey. Young shoots, petioles and leaves, and inflorescences, scurfily stellate-pubescent. Petioles 5-6 cm long, biglandular at the apex. Leaf-blades ovate, rhombic or ovate-lanceolate, entire or 3-7-lobed, 10-30 x 6-25 cm, subacute to shortly acuminate, cuneate, rounded, truncate or cordate at the base, glabrescent. Stipules cylindric, 1 mm long, soon falling. Inflorescences conical, upto 15 cm long and wide; bracts 2-3 mm long. Male flowers: pedicels slender, 5-7 mm long; buds ovoid-subglobose; calyx-lobes 2-3 mm long; petals oblanceolate-spathulate, 5 x 2 mm, obtuse, yellowish-white; stamens 1-2 nun long, anthers 0.5 mm long, receptacle puberulous. Female flowers: pedicels 2-3 mm long, stout; buds ellipsoid; calyx-lobes and petals twice as long as in the ♂ fls, otherwise similar; ovary subglobose, 2 mm diam., densely stellate-tomentose; styles 1 mm long, glabrous. Fruit ovoid-subglobose, with 4 low ridges, 4-5 x 4-6 cm, evenly to sparingly stellate-pubescent, olive-coloured. Seeds broadly ovoid, 2.5-3 x 2.5-3 cm, greyish, mottled brownish.