Erect open shrub, 1-2.5 m tall, lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-pubescent, with hairs white and ferruginous. Leaves flexible, flat, narrowly obovate, 7-17 cm long, 7-40 mm wide, attenuate, entire, rounded, obtuse or acute. Inflorescence with 10-18 flowers; involucre 8-8.5 mm long; rachis obscure; pedicels 6-9 mm long, tomentose, with some hairs appressed; hairs white, extending onto perianth. Flowers bisexual. Perianth 7.5-10 mm long. Pistil 13-14 mm long; pollen presenter an oblique disc, 0.9-1.2 mm long; gland U-shaped, 1.5-1.7 mm high. Fruit sigmoidal, 3.5-4 cm long, 1.8-2.2 cm wide, black-pusticulate. Seed 23-29 mm long; wing narrowly down one side of seed body only.
Uncommon on granite, laterite, loam, gravel or sand in forest and heath.
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