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Fruit 2–3·5 x 1–3·5 cm., subcircular or more rarely broadly elliptic in outline, silvery-lepidote (less densely on the wings), apical peg up to 1 mm. long or absent, wings up to 12 mm. broad, rigid, coriaceous, stipe slender and elongating to 12(15) mm. long.
Inflorescences of rather dense often subcapitate axillary spikes up to 2·5 cm. long, occasionally branched; rhachis densely lepidote otherwise glabrous or puberulous; bracts very small (c. 0·6 mm. long), caducous.
Lower receptacle 1·5–2·5 x 0·3–0·5 mm., lepidote otherwise glabrous or nearly so; upper receptacle up to 2 x 2 mm., cupuliform or broadly infundibuliform, lepidote otherwise glabrous or rarely puberulous.
Small deciduous tree up to 6·5 m. tall, or shrub; bark smooth, grey-brown to silver-grey; branchlets silvery-lepidote, otherwise glabrous.
Petals 1·5–3 x 0·9–1·1 mm., narrowly obovate to spathulate, glabrous, apex rounded or obtuse, shortly unguiculate.
Cotyledons 2, 2–2·5 x 3–3·5 cm., transversely elliptic or subcircular to subreniform; petioles 1–3 mm. long.
Flowers sessile, greenish-yellow, densely lepidote otherwise glabrous or rarely puberulous.
Stamen-filaments 3·5–4·5 mm. long; anthers c. 0·5 mm. long.
Disk 0·8–1 mm. in diam., glabrous, rather inconspicuous.
Sepals very shallowly triangular or merely small teeth.
Scales as for the section.
Style 4·5–5 mm. long.
