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Leaves opposite or subopposite, petiolate; lamina up to 8 x 3 cm., obovate-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, tomentose or velutinous when young, glabrescent when old, apex slightly acuminate, base cuneate to rounded; lateral nerves 4–7 pairs; petiole up to 3 mm. long.
Fruit (4)5(6)-winged, up to 3·5 x 2 cm., elliptic in outline, tomentellous, apex blunt with a short apical peg, base decurrent into the stipe (or fruit subsessile), stipe up to 5 mm. long but often scarcely distinguishable from the decurrent base of the fruit.
Small semi-deciduous tree up to 9 m. high but often stunted; crown flat-rounded ; bark grey, shallow-furrowed; branchlets often rather stout, tomentose, with bark peeling off in longitudinal fibrous strips.
Flowers white or pale-cream or yellow, sweet-scented; rhachis densely pilose; bracts 3 mm. long, linear, densely pilose.
Inflorescences of subcapitate spikes c. 2 cm. long borne on short spur shoots with the young leaves.
male flowers similar but with the ovary not developing and with a pseudopedicel 8 mm. long.
