Small tree or shrub, sometimes dwarfed, 0.4-10 m tall. Branchlets and young leaves appressed-pubescent. Leaves flat, elliptic, 2.7-8.5 cm long, 5-25 mm wide, narrowly attenuate to cuneate, usually entire, rarely dentate with 1 (-4) teeth 1 mm long per side; mucro 0.5-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence with 22-28 flowers; involucre 5-6.5 mm long; bracts densely tomentose, ferruginous; rachis 3.5-4 mm long, villous; pedicels 3-5 mm long. Perianth 2.5-3 mm long, white. Pistil 5-6.5 mm long; ovary glabrous; gland present. Fruit obliquely ovate, 2-3 cm long, 1.3-2 cm wide, glabrous, pusticulate; horns to 6 mm long. Seed obliquely obovate, 11-16 mm long; wing partly down one side of seed body only.
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