Small tree or dense shrub, 1-5 m tall, ?lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves linear, narrowly elliptic or obovate, 8-18.5 cm long, 1-30 mm wide, attenuate, acute; mucro 0.5-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence axillary with 6-10 flowers; involucre c. 2.5-3.5 mm long; pedicels 2.5-6 mm long, densely pubescent with hairs white, extending onto perianth. Perianth 3.5-6.5 mm long, white. Pistil 7-8.5 mm long; pollen presenter lateral below style apex, 1.2-1.5 mm long; gland 0.2 mm high. Fruit obovate, somewhat sigmoidal, 1.9-3.2 cm long, 1.2-1.6 cm wide, smooth, brown-pusticulate; apiculum 3.5-4.5 mm long. Seed obliquely narrowly obovate, 19.5-20.5 mm long; wing apical only.