Champada is an evergreen monoecious tree. It can grow up to 20 m tall, and is seldom buttressed. The bark is greyish brown with bumps on the trunk and main limbs where leafy twigs are produced, which bear the fruits. Brown wiry hairs 3 mm long cover twigs, stipules and leaves. Twigs are 2.5-4.0 mm thick with annulate stipular scars. The stipules are ovate up to 9 cm long. Leaves are obovate to elliptic, 5-25 × 2.5-12 cm in size, and the base is cuneate to rounded, with entire margin, and acuminated apex. The lateral veins are in 6-10 pairs, curving forward, with 1-3 cm long petiole. The inflorescences are solitary and borne on the axillary position of short leafy shoots. Male heads are cylindrical, 3-5.5 × 1 cm in size, and are whitish-yellow in colour with 3-6 cm long peduncle. The female heads occur with simple filiform styles exserted to 1.5 mm. The fruit is a syncarp, cylindrical to almost globose, and 20-35 × 10-15 cm in size. It is yellowish, brownish, or orange-green, and smells strongly at maturity. Pericarps, including the seeds, are ellipsoid to oblong about 3 × 2 cm in size. Cotyledons are unequal, thick and fleshy. Germination is epigeal