Erect branched shrub, 0.6-3 m tall, non-lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves woolly-tomentose, ferruginous. Leaves flat, elliptic or obovate, sometimes narrowly so, 2.8-6.3 cm long, 7-17 mm wide, attenuate or rounded, entire, rounded apically. Inflorescence with 3-8 flowers; involucre 5 mm long; pedicels 4-8 mm long, ferruginous woolly-tomentose. Perianth 5.5-9 mm long, cream-white or yellow-brown woolly-tomentose. Pistil 7.5-9.5 mm long; pollen presenter 1-1.4 mm long; gland 0.2 mm high. Fruit leaf-like, obliquely narrowly elliptic, 2.6-3.2 cm long, 1-1.1 cm wide, smooth, not beaked. Seed obliquely narrowly obovate, 20-23 mm long; wing partly down only one side of seed body, or apical only.
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