Erect shrub, 2-4 m tall, non-sprouting. Branchlets densely tomentose with reddish brown hairs at flowering. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, ±flat, 4.5-9.5 cm long, 15-55 mm wide, cuneate to almost rounded at base, finely crenate, obtuse and blunt, short-acuminate or emarginate; longitudinal veins 3-5 above and below; secondary veins reticulate, prominent. Inflorescence solitary with 35-40 flowers; pedicels glabrous. Perianth cream-white. Pistil 6-7.5 mm long; gland present. Fruit obliquely elliptic, 3-3.7 cm long, 1.8-2.2 cm wide, not curved apically, not or obscurely beaked. Seed obliquely ovate, 20-25 mm long; wing extending broadly down one side of body, narrowly and partly down other, blackish brown, sometimes with paler patches.
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