"Trees, to 7 m high; branchlets angular and pubescent, becoming terete, glabrous and brown with age; leafscars prominent. Leaves simple, alternate, crowded towards the apex of branchlets, estipulate; petiole 2-3 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 7-11 x 2-2.5 cm, linear-oblong, base attenuate, apex acute, margin entire, glabrous above, puberulent beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs pinnate, slender, faint, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, bright yellow, in terminal white silky compact heads surrounded by an involucre of silky bracts; pedicels 2 mm, densely pilose; calyx tube to 1.5 cm, densely long pilose without; lobes 5, 3 mm, oblong, pilose without; petaloid appendages 8, yellow, terete, fleshy; stamens 8-10, in 2 rows; ovary superior, sessile, oblong, 1-celled; style filiform, stigma capitate. Fruit a berry, 4 mm long, ellipsoid, densely pilose, enclosed in the calyx; seed brown, ridged laterally."
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Small trees up to 7 m tall.
Bark brownish, irregularly scaly when mature; blaze yellowish.
Young branchlets angular to terete, pubescent when young, later glabrous.
Leaves simple, alternate, spiral, clustered at twig ends; petiole 0.3 cm long, slender, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent when young; lamina 4-8.5 x 1-2 cm, narrow elliptic to elliptic-obovate, apex acute with mucronate tip, base obtuse or attenuate, margin entire, pubescent beneath; midrib flat or slightly canaliculate above; secondary nerves up to 10 pairs, not prominent; tertiary nerves broadly reticulate or obscure.
Flowers yellow, in terminal heads, with involucrate silky bracts; pedicel 0.2 cm long.
Fruit indehiscent, dry, small, 1-seeded."