Upright sparingly branched shrub, up to 2.5 m. high.. Younger branches ± densely ferrugineous-or greyish-sericeous, older ones usually glabrous, lenticellate.. Leaf-lamina linear, linear-lanceolate, oblanceolate, oblong-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 1.5–6 × 0.5–1.25(–l.5) cm., acute to obtuse, sometimes finely apiculate, cuneate or attenuate at the base, glabrous to densely hairy (see below), rigidly coriaceous, with revolute margins, with 8–12 pairs of lateral nerves, eglandular or rarely with a pair of small glands beneath near insertion of petiole; petiole 1–3 mm. long, canaliculate, glabrous or somewhat sericeous.. Inflorescences on leafy branchlets terminating in few-to many-flowered pyramidal racemes, 3–8(–12) cm. long; rhachis robust, usually ± densely ferrugineous-sericeous; bracts subulate, 2–2.5 mm. long, persistent; bracteoles subulate, up to 1.5 mm. long, eglandular.. Flowers 1.25–1.75 cm. in diameter.. Sepals broadly ovate to ovate-circular, rarely oblong-ovate, 2.5–4 mm. long, ferrugineous-sericeous or glabrescent outside, with a pair of circular glands at the very base (sometimes glands much reduced) or with glands on the commissures (altogether 3–5).. Petals yellow, broadly obovate to subcircular, concave (spoon-like), 6–10 mm. long, shortly clawed.. Stamens with ovate-oblong anthers 4–5 mm. long; filaments rather thick, ± 1 mm. long, glabrous.. Ovary densely sericeous; styles 2, 0.75–1 cm. long.. Wing of samara obliquely ovate, obovate-oblong, obovate or elliptic, l.5–2(–2.5) × l.2–l.4(–l.7) cm., sometimes extending round nut to the base.
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