Shrub or tree 1-12 m tall, with or without lignotuber, sometimes suckering. Bark smooth becoming finely tessellated, grey. Stems hirsute and tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves alternate; petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina linear, oblong or narrowly cuneate, 15-60 mm long, 3-13 mm wide, commonly truncate or emarginate, sometimes obtuse, rarely acute; margins slightly recurved to revolute, entire or occasionally serrate; upper surface hirsute to tomentose, glabrescent; lower surface white-tomentose. Inflorescence commonly 5-10 cm long; involucral bracts to 10 mm long, tomentose, commonly persistent. Flowers pale yellow, often grey-tinged in late bud; style pale yellow. Perianth 16-24 mm long including limb of 2.5-3.5 mm, pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Pistil straight or curved downwards, slender, 20-31 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter 0.7-1 mm long, scarcely thickened. Old flowers usually persistent, sometimes falling. Follicles up to 150, narrowly elliptic, 7-17 mm long, 2-5 mm high, 2-4 mm wide; valves semi-elliptic, rather thin, smooth, hirsute, glabrescent. Seed obovate-cuneate, 9-15 mm long; seed body cuneate-falcate, 5-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, smooth to finely rugose on both sides.
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A dense bushy shrub or small tree. It can grow 1-9 m high. The bark is smooth and greyish brown. The leaves are 3-10 cm long and narrow. They are oblong and silvery underneath. The edges of the leaves can have teeth on younger leaves. The edges of older leaves can be rolled under. The flowers are small. They are yellow. They are crowded into dense spikes 10 cm long and 4 cm across. Cones turn grey with age. The fertile sections form hard brown bulges on the side of cones. The seeds have wings.
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