Erect or spreading shrub, 0.5-1.5 m tall, non-sprouting. Branchlets patchily appressed-pubescent at flowering. Leaves patchily sericeous, flat, thick, c. one-third as deep as wide, narrower across underside, narrowly linear, 7-13.5 cm long, 1.5-2.7 cm wide, 0.4-0.8 mm deep, finely ribbed, narrowly acute with ±blunt mucro, sericeous; veins prominent, 3-5 on upper side including marginal veins, 2 or 3 on underside. Inflorescence with c. 100 flowers; rachis 3-3.5 cm long, densely hirsute; pedicels sparsely to moderately pubescent. Perianth red, sparsely appressed-pubescent. Pistil 15-18 mm long; gland obovoid. Fruit 2-8 on elongated rachis, stalked, scarcely woody, obliquely narrowly ovate to elliptic, 1.4-1.7 cm long, 0.6-0.7 cm wide, slightly curved apically, not beaked, shortly apiculate, not keeled on ventral suture. Seed not seen; seed scar on valve angularly obliquely narrowly elliptic, 14-16 mm long, 6-7 mm wide; wing extending narrowly and partly down one side of body only.
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