Erect multi-stemmed shrub, 0.45-1.2 m tall, to 2 m diam., lignotuberous. Branchlets and young leaves glabrous. Leaves narrowly obovate to obovate, 3.7-8.2 cm long, 11-27 mm wide, attenuate, entire, rounded, rarely emarginate; mucro 0.1 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, sometimes from old wood; involucre 2-3 mm long; rachis glabrous; pedicels 3.5-4.5 mm long, glabrous. Perianth 3-4 mm long, white or pink, deep red with age, glabrous. Pistil 7-8.5 mm long. Fruit obliquely obovate, 7-8.5 cm long, 3.5-4 cm wide, smooth, black-pusticulate; apiculum 2-7 mm long; horns 8-10 mm long. Seed obliquely elliptic, 40-60 mm long; wing encircling seed body, dark or mid-brown.
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