Sprawling shrub, 0.3-1.5 m tall, non-sprouting. Branchlets moderately villous to hirsute, and densely tomentose with pale rust-brown hairs at flowering. Leaves in lower parts elliptic to ovate, in flowering region broadly ovate-acuminate (markedly narrowed in distal half), decurved, folded adaxially almost in half along midrib (sides almost erect), at base almost obscuring stem, 2.2-6 cm long, 1.2-5 cm wide when spread open, entire or almost so (often finely denticulate or crenulate), narrowly acute, grey-green. Inflorescence axillary with 5 or 6 flowers; pedicels 1.2-2 mm long, glabrous. Perianth white. Pistil 14-15 mm long; gland absent. Fruit 1 or 2 per axil, obliquely narrowly ovate in lateral view, 1.1-1.3 cm long, 4-6 mm wide. Seed obliquely narrowly ovate, indented at base, 11-15 mm long; wing extending narrowly down both sides of body, blackish brown throughout.
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