Slender to bushy shrub or small tree, 1.8-6 m high, not resprouting. Branchlets densely tomentose or appressed-pubescent, persistent until flowering. Leaves not widely divergent, terete, not grooved, 3-11 cm long, 1-1.6 mm wide, sparsely to densely appressed-sericeous, quickly glabrescent or persistent; apex porrect with mucro 1-2.5 mm long. Inflorescence of 6-12 flowers; rachis simple, 0.8-4 mm long, densely white-tomentose; pedicels 3.8-6.7 mm long, hairs white-appressed, sericeous or not. Perianth 3-4.2 mm long, cream-white, with white appressed-sericeous hairs, soon glabrescent. Pistil 8.2-12 mm long. Fruit obliquely elliptic, 4.3-5.5 cm long, 3-3.5 cm wide, coarsely rugose, often also verrucose or pusticulate; beak tiny, with similar surface to rest of fruit; horns 0.5-1.8 mm long, often broken. Seed 27-37 mm long; wing decurrent fully down one side of seed-body only, dark brown.
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