Shrub up to 1.25 m. tall, or perhaps a small tree.. Young twigs rather densely covered with spreading white glandular hairs sometimes intermixed with colourless stalked scales.. Leaf-blade obovate-elliptic to broadly almost roundly elliptic, 2.7–7 cm. long, 2.2–4.2 cm. wide, apically roundly obtuse to retuse, basally rounded, variably densely covered with subsessile or clearly stipitate colourless glands, but not farinaceous; petiole up to 5 mm. long.. Inflorescence a dense subcorymbose raceme; pedicels of the mature flowers 1.4–2 cm. long.. Sepals of rather markedly different size, the outer pair deeply folded, 1–1.7 cm. long, one sometimes longer than the other, the inner pair practically flat, as much as 1 cm. shorter than the outer, covered externally with shortly stipitate scales, but green or pale green, not farinose-white.. Petals 11–13 mm. long; blade rather narrowly elliptic, but up to 4 mm. wide; claw 4–7 mm. long.. Androphore 5–7 mm. long, glabrous; appendage subequal, apex sometimes bilobed, but not fringed or petaloid; stamens 5; filaments 14–16 mm. long; anthers 4–4.75 mm. long.. Gynophore glandular; ovary cylindrical, glandular; stigma sessile, flat.. Young fruits narrowly cylindrical, scarcely torulose, densely scaly; mature fruits unknown.
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