Shrub to 1.5 m high, pubescent when young, later scabridulous. Leaves: lamina oblong, elliptic or obovate, obtuse, truncate or retuse, entire or crenulate, 5.5–9 cm long, 1–2.3 cm wide, pubescent to scabrid; petiole 1–2 mm long. Flowers in small terminal or axillary open racemes, or flowers solitary; pedicels to 4 mm long. Sepals 5–7, linear, ovate-oblong, acute, 3.5–5 mm long. Stamens 8–10; filaments 3.5–5 mm long; anthers to 4 mm long. Ovary 6–8-lobed, pubescent; styles c. 2.5 mm long. Fruit 4–8-locular, ellipsoidal, inflated, with 4–8 narrow wings, 15–22 mm long and wide, stiffly pubescent with yellowish hairs; wings wider towards apex, 3–5 mm wide.
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