Shrub up to 2 m high and at the base to 15 cm in diameter. Branches terete, to 1.5 cm thick, covered with fibrous leaf sheaths. Leaf blades about 60 cm long and 1.2 cm wide, V-shaped with prominent midvein and strong veins on both sides, deciduous, linear and tapering to an acute apex, adaxial surface with distinct setae, abaxial surface glabrous or laxly covered with eglandular emergences, margins smooth. Flowers solitary, strongly scented. Peduncles one to four at apex of a branch, 6-13 cm long and covered with flat or swollen stellate eglandular emergences in uppermost part. Tepals up to 60 mm long, white to pale lavender. Stamens six, with short filaments, anthers from 2 cm to about half as long as tepals. Stigma linear, much longer than the style base. Ovary 8-16 mm long, ellipsoid, covered with flat forked or stellate emergences, in young flowers flat and triangular, in old ovaries typically swollen, less dense and four-sided.
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