Shrub to 2 m tall, without lignotuber, much-branched. Stems tomentose. Leaves crowded, reflexed, ascending or sometimes spreading; petiole 0.5-1 mm long; lamina linear to narrowly elliptic, 3-15 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, mucronate; upper surface hirsute, glabrescent. Inflorescence 2-3 cm long; involucral bracts small, tomentose. Flowers golden brown; style yellow. Perianth 7-9 mm long including limb of 1.5 mm, hirsute outside with glabrous limb, glabrous inside. Pistil hooked, 18-26 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter turbinate, 0.3-0.4 mm long and wide. Old flowers persistent for 1-2 years, then falling except style bases. Follicles narrow, 12-22 mm long, 1-7 mm high, 3-4 mm wide, rather undulate, tomentose, loosely packed among enlarged floral bracts. Seed obovate, 20-24 mm long; seed body oblong-obovate, 8-10 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, smooth.
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