Straggly bush or shrub 0.3-1.3 m tall; resprouting capacity unknown. Branchlets and young leaves white-pubescent. Leaves simple, 1.5-14.5 cm long, 1.1-1.9 mm wide, white-pubescent, glabrescent; mucro 1-2.8 mm long. Inflorescence axillary with 1-14 flowers; rachis 0.5-3 mm long, with white appressed hairs; pedicels 2.5-6 mm long, glabrous; buds curved. Perianth 4-6.5 mm long, white or pink, glabrous, glaucous. Pistil 7-12 mm long; pollen presenter oblique, 0.6-0.9 mm long; gland slightly curved, 0.15-0.3 mm long laterally. Fruit broadly elliptic to circular, 2.5-4 cm long, 2-3.4 cm wide, coarsely verrucose or rugose, with short oblique beak; horns to 5 mm long; apiculum obscure. Seed obliquely oblong-elliptic, 24-38 mm long; wing encircling seed body, brown to brown-black.
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