Erect or sprawling shrub to 1.5 m, with lignotuber. New shoots pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves with petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina terete, with groove on upper surface, 10-35 mm long, yellow-green, acute, pungent, entire, hard, glabrous. Conflorescence terminal or axillary; rachis to 2 cm long, pubescent; bracts ovate, subacute, 3-3.5 mm long, scarious, not striate, with ciliate margins and pubescent tip. Perianth 4-5 mm long, creamy white or pink-tinged, glabrous. Hypogynous glands oblong or linear, 0.2-0.3 mm long. Gynoecium 3.5-4 mm long; ovary silky-pubescent. Follicle oblong, expanded adaxially at base, obliquely beaked, 12-15 mm long, glabrous. Seed surrounded by wing.
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