A straggling shrub (or ? woody climber) with branches up to 3 m. in length.. Younger branches ± densely ferrugineous-pubescent, older ones glabrous, lenticellate.. Leaf-lamina oblanceolate to (rarely) obovate, 4–7 x 1.5– 2.5(–3) cm., obtuse or shortly acuminate, cuneate, coriaceous, with margins slightly involute, finely ferrugineous-pubescent when young, soon glabrescent or sometimes upper surface and midrib beneath remaining finely pubescent, with 9–13 pairs of lateral nerves, eglandular or with a pair of very small glands at the very base beneath; petiole 1–2 mm. long, ± robust, subcanaliculate, pubescent or glabrous.. Inflorescences mostly axillary, 3–5 cm. long, many-flowered, with a fairly stout rhachis, ± densely ferrugineous-sericeous, forming pyramidal or corymbiform racemes; bracts triangular-subulate, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, persistent; bracteoles subulate, 1–1.5 mm. long, eglandular.. Flowers ± 2.25 cm. in diameter.. Calyx eglandular or with 1–2(–3) small circular glands, ± densely sericeous outside; lobes 2–2.5 (–3) mm. long, ovate to ovate-oblong, usually glabrous but shortly ciliate at margins.. Petals yellow, obovate, ± 12 mm. long, entire or shortly lacerate, clawed.. Stamens with oblong-ovate anthers 3–4mm. long; filaments cylindric to ligulate, 1–1.5 mm. long, carnose, glabrous.. Ovary densely sericeous.. Styles 2, 7–10 mm. long, usually glabrous.. Wing of samara obliquely obovate, 4–5 × 1.75–2.25 cm., narrowed in lower half, broadest across the middle, distally oblique-truncate and obtuse (see fig. 1/1), clasping the nut only by a very small ridge, usually glabrous, sometimes finely pubescent.. Fig. 1/1, p. 4.
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