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Fruit up to 2·8 x 2·3 cm., broadly elliptic in outline, minutely lepidote otherwise usually glabrous, wings 7 mm. broad, chartaceous, apical peg 1–2 mm. long, stipe up to 5 mm. long.
Inflorescence up to 20 cm. long, a terminal or axillary panicle of spikes; rhachis densely fuscous-pubescent when young, ± glabrescent; bracts 1–2 mm. long, linear, caducous.
Lower receptacle c. 1 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent; upper receptacle 1·2–1·5 x 1·2–1·5 mm., often petaloid, usually not conspicuously lepidote.
Small tree or shrub, sometimes scandent; branchlets densely pubescent when young, soon glabrescent, often silvery-lepidote when young.
Scales as for the section, frequent in the areoles of the lower surface of the leaf.
Stamen-filaments 3–4 mm. long; anthers 0·5 mm. long; style 4 mm. long, glabrous.
Sepals very shallowly triangular or little developed.
Petals 0· x 1·5 mm., subreniform, glabrous.
Flowers sessile, white, scented.
