Dense rounded shrub or slender pyramidal tree 1-5 m high. Branchlets initially densely sericeous, with hairs ±persistent at flowering. Leaves narrowly divergent to widely spreading, terete, not grooved, 5-8 (-13) cm long, 1.1-1.6 mm wide, densely appressed-sericeous with white hairs, or rarely tomentose with brownish hairs, quickly glabrescent; apex porrect, with mucro 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence axillary umbel of 6-8 flowers; rachis knob-like, simple, 1-2 mm long, densely white-tomentose; pedicels 3.5-5.5 mm long, moderately appressed-sericeous with white hairs, these sometimes extending sparsely onto perianth. Perianth 3.5-6 mm long, white or cream, not glaucous. Pistil 8-10.5 mm long. Fruit 2.3-2.7 cm long, 1.7-2 cm wide, coarsely rugose, tuberculate or pusticulate; beak transverse, decurrent shortly down one side of fruit, with surface similar to rest of fruit; horns and apiculum obscure. Seed 15-16.5 mm long, 6-7 mm wide; wing decurrent 1/2-3/4 way down one side of seed-body only, black or dark brown.
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