Branchlets densely subsericeous. Leaves usually narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, (30–)40–120(–200) mm long, (8–)10–25(–50) mm wide; upper surface glabrous, dull, dark green, sometimes with greyish hue; margins shortly recurved; leaf length to width ratio (2.85:1–)4:1–5:1(–6:1); leaf upper surface smooth, without minute asperities, dull; lower surface densely sericeous or subsericeous, lateral veins conspicuous, reticulum absent. Conflorescences simple to 4-branched, simple 69 %, 2-branched 20 %, 3-branched 9 %, 4-branched 2 %. Floral rachises (17–)40–90 mm long. Flowering has been recorded primarily Oct.-Feb.