Multi-stemmed, much-branched shrub, 1-1.3 m tall, lignotuberous. Branchlets appressed-pubescent, ferruginous. Leaves simple, 7-13 cm long, 1.2-1.5 mm wide, appressed-sericeous, ferruginous, quickly glabrescent; mucro 1.5-2.5 mm long. Inflorescence axillary with 8 flowers; involucre 1-1.5 mm long; rachis obscure; pedicels 3.5-4.5 mm long, glabrous; buds curved. Perianth c. 2.5 mm long, cream-white, glabrous. Pistil 4.0-4.5 mm long; pollen presenter oblique, ±conical. Fruit obliquely broadly elliptic or obovate, 1.5-2.2 cm long, 1.2-1.5 cm wide, black-pusticulate on pale grey bark, not beaked, obscurely apiculate; horns 5-6 mm long, very narrow. Seed obovate, 11 mm long, 5.5 mm wide; wing broadly down one side of seed-body only, black or dark brown.
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