Slender tree 3 m high, with whitish bark and softly woody branches covered in horizontally elongated leaf-scars. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 4 x 0.8 cm, apex apiculate (only young ones seen). Cymes in 4–5-branched umbels, with rays 1–5 cm long, forking 2–3 times; bracts red, transversely elliptic, 1.5–2 x 3–3.5 cm, with abruptly apiculate apex, enfolding the cyathia. Cyathia 1–1.2 cm in diam., pubescent; glands 4, spreading, 3 x 6 mm, with 10–15 tapering processes on the outer margin, 1 mm long with scarcely thickened apices. Stamens pubescent, with glabrous anthers. Female flowers, capsules and seeds not seen.