Erect shrub or small tree, 1-3.5 m tall, possibly resprouting. Branchlets densely, sometimes patchily, appressed-pubescent to ±glabrous at flowering. Leaves flat, linear, sometimes widened distally, falcate, 8-20 cm long, 5-11 cm wide, finely striated, acute, bluntly mucronate, moderately to sparsely appressed-pubescent; veins 5-9 between prominent marginal veins. Inflorescence with 100-150 flowers; rachis 2-5 cm long, densely tomentose; pedicels glabrous. Perianth bright pink, glabrous. Pistil 13-16 mm long; gland ±flat, ±obtriangular, centrally depressed. Fruit 1-15 on elongated rachis, stalked or subsessile, woody, ovate to ovate-oblong, 1.7-2.6 cm long, 0.8-1.3 cm wide, scarcely or not beaked, at first acuminate, enlarging and becoming more woody and obtuse, although still shortly apiculate with age, not keeled on ventral suture. Seed ovate-elliptic to ±elliptic-oblong, 11-16 mm long, 3.5-6 mm wide; wing extending partly down one side of body only, blackish brown.
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