Small tree (or scandent?, see note), 4-5(-9?) m high. Young twigs densely fulvous or greyish haired, often tardily glabrescent; internodes 1-3½ cm long. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 2.5-7 times as long as broad, 4-7 by ¾-2 cm; base rounded, glandless; top acute to slightly acuminate; nerves 7-10 pairs, inconspicuous; upper surface densely fulvous or greyish sericeous when young, shiny and sooner or later glabrescent, lower surface dull, persistently thick-tomentose; petiole 0.25-0.5 cm. Inflorescences axillary, about as long as the leaves, densely haired in all parts. Bracts linear, c. 0.5 cm. Pedicels 1-1.25 cm. Flowers yellow or red; calycinal gland orbicular, cup-shaped with a thickened rim, c. 1 mm in diam. Sepals obtuse, triangular, haired on both surfaces, 1.5-2 mm long. Petals as far as known not distinctly clawed, suborbicular to elliptic, entire, haired outside, 4-6 mm long. Long stamen c. 3.5 mm, the others c. 2 mm. Ovary haired; style 3-4 mm. Samaras with an oblong central wing ¾-1¼ cm long, the two lateral wings from tip to tip ¾-1 cm long.
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