Shrub or small tree 1-6 m high, with 1-3 or more stems, lignotuberous. Branchlets off-white appressed-pubescent; very young shoots with shiny ferruginous appressed hairs over shining white hairs. Leaves simple, terete, ascending, variable in length along branches, longest on a branch (2-) 11-30 cm long, (0.8-) 0.9-1.4 mm wide, uncinate, ±glabrous. Inflorescence axillary, with c. 25-50 flowers; rachis 9-25 mm long, red-brown tomentose over off-white appressed hairs; pedicels 3.5-8 mm long, with dense appressed white hairs extending onto perianth in bud, sparser on claw, denser on limb with age. Perianth recurved in mature bud, 6-8 mm long, cream-white. Pistil 17-26 mm long; gland deep purple; style curved; pollen presenter oblique. Fruit 30-35 mm long, with long obscure beak c. 2/3 length of fruit; horns to 2 mm long; valves narrowly obovate-oblong, 10-12 mm wide; red-brown wood zone c. 1.2-2 mm wide; pale wood zone c. 4 mm wide. Seed occupying most of valve, 26-30 mm long, 8.5-10 mm wide; wing c. 1/3 way down one side of seed body only.
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