Small tree or erect or spreading shrub, 1-7.5 m tall, resprouting capacity unknown. Branchlets appressed-pubescent, quickly glabrescent or persistent. Leaves narrowly divergent, terete, grooved below, (3-) 5.5-15 cm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, densely cream appressed-sericeous, covered by more quickly caducous ferruginous hairs; apex porrect or rarely uncinate, with mucro 1.4-2.7 mm long. Inflorescence axillary umbel of 1-6 flowers; rachis obscure, simple, 0.8-1.5 mm long, densely tomentose with white and/or ferruginous hairs; pedicels 3.2-6.8 mm long, usually appressed-sericeous, with hairs usually white. Perianth 3-5.2 mm long, white or cream-white, sparsely appressed-sericeous with white shining hairs. Pistil c. 7-10 mm long. Fruit elliptic to obovate, 2.8-4 cm long, 1.8-2.4 cm wide, pale-pusticulate on brown-black bark; beak small, ±smooth; horns 1-3 mm long, fragile. Seed 2.2-2.7 mm long; wing extending 1/2-3/4 way down one side only, blackish brown.
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