Erect, rather open shrub to 3 m tall, with lignotuber. New shoots pale rusty-pubescent, glabresent. Leaves with petiole 2-3 mm long; lamina narrowly oblong to lanceolate or ovate, 2-12 cm long, 3-11 mm wide, bluntly mucronate, shining above, pale beneath, puberulous; margins recurved to almost flat, entire or serrate. Conflorescence in upper axils; rachis to 4 cm long, rusty-tomentose; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse to almost acute, papery, 3-4 mm long, glabrous except pubescent tip and margins. Perianth 4-5 mm long, creamy white, glabrous. Hypogynous glands ±ovoid, 0.3 mm long. Gynoecium 3.5-4.5 mm long; ovary and base of style villous. Follicle boat-shaped, almost acute, 18-24 mm long, 6-8 mm wide, glabrous or nearly so. Seed wing terminal.
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