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Pods 7–16.5 × 2–2.5 cm, irregularly oblong to linear-oblong, rusty brown-tomentose when young but somewhat glabrescent when older and revealing a dark reddish-brown surface.
Fertile stamens 5; 5 staminodes united for nearly all their length into a yellow linear-oblong or spathulate strap, 1.5–3 × 1–2.5 cm.
Inflorescence usually 1–5-flowered, these sometimes aggregating into small lax panicles; axes brown-tomentose; pedicels c.4 mm.
Calyx 1.8–3.2 cm, the bud obtusely pointed but often with filiform sepal tips extending beyond, tomentose like the hypanthium.
Petals 3.2–6 cm long, 1.4–2.8 cm broad, elliptic to obovate with undulate-crisped margins, with a claw 0.5–1.8 cm, white.
Hypanthium 2.5–5.2 cm, ± linear but broadening somewhat above, brown-tomentose, longitudinally ribbed.
Young branches tomentellous with spreading brown hairs.
Suffrutex 40 cm high to small tree 3.3 m high.
Ovary brown villous; stigma capitate-peltate.
Seeds reddish brown, 1.2–1.6 × 0.9–1.2 cm,.
