Shrub, to 3 m tall with columnar branches, lignotuberous. Branchlets densely villous below sparser longer hairs. Leaves crowded, particularly towards branchlet apex, erect, arranged in cylindrical whorl about stem, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 2-4 cm long, 3-9 mm wide, attenuate or broadly cuneate, hirsute, mixed with short pubescence, longer hairs persisting near base, glaucous. Inflorescence with 18-24 flowers; involucre 9-10 mm long; rachis 2-3 mm long, villous; pedicels 7-13 mm long. Perianth 2.5-3 mm long, mid-yellow. Pistil 7-10 mm long; pollen presenter a ±lateral disc. Fruit obliquely broadly ovate, 1.3-2 cm long, 1.1-1.4 cm wide, smooth, glabrous. Seed obliquely elliptic, c. 15 mm long; wing encircling seed body.
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