Rounded shrub, 0.8-2.5 m tall, non-sprouting. Branchlets densely appressed-pubescent at flowering, sometimes patchily glabrescent. Leaves thick, linear, flat, 9-20 cm long, 1.5-7 mm wide, glabrescent; prominently veined with longitudinal veins 1-3 or obscure above, 3-5 below. Inflorescence a solitary axillary umbelliform raceme, with 50-80 flowers; pedicels glabrous, mauve or purple. Perianth cream to orange-pink. Pistil 13-16 mm long; gland an obtriangular flap, 0.5-0.7 mm high. Fruit 1-9 per axil, stalked, obliquely elliptic, ±straight, 1.5-2.5 cm long, 0.8-1.2 cm wide, acuminate, scarcely beaked but with a prominent weak apiculum. Seed obliquely elliptic, 11-14.5 mm long, 5.5-7 mm wide; wing extending fully down both sides of body but more broadly down one side and narrowly around base, sometimes notched adaxially near base, blackish brown, sometimes with paler patches.
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