Bushy shrub, 0.5-1 m tall, resprouting from base. Branchlets ±glabrous at flowering. Leaves flexible, linear, flat, twisted at base and often spirally twisted or curled along length, 6-11 cm long, 2-7 mm wide, ±glabrous but papillose; marginal veins prominent; midvein prominent above and below; pinnate secondary veins scarcely visible. Inflorescence a solitary axillary umbelliform raceme, with 14-20 flowers; pedicels cream-white, glabrous. Perianth cream-white. Pistil 4.4-5 mm long; gland a small flap, c. 0.5 mm high. Fruit subsessile, obliquely narrowly ovate to almost linear, slightly to markedly curved, 2.8-3 cm long, 0.6-0.8 cm wide, with long narrow beak grading into a fragile slender apiculum. Seed obliquely narrowly elliptic, 16-17.5 mm long; wing extending more broadly or only down adaxial side of body, blackish brown.
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