Shrub to 3 m tall, with lignotuber. Bark smooth, grey-brown. Stems tomentose, rusty becoming grey. Leaves alternate; petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina oblong to obovate, commonly 5-11 cm long, 1.5-2 cm wide, obtuse or truncate; margins slightly recurved, commonly serrate with teeth 1-2 mm long; upper surface densely rusty-tomentose, glabrescent; lower surface tomentose, with nerves glabrescent and pits woolly. Inflorescence terminal to a 1-5-year-old branchlet, 5-15 cm long; involucral bracts densely tomentose, persistent. Flowers pale yellow, often with blue-grey tinge; style cream. Perianth 21-26 mm long including limb of 4 mm, pubescent-hirsute outside, glabrous inside. Pistil straight, 20-28 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly ovoid, 0.7-0.8 mm long. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles up to 80, narrowly elliptic, 10-18 mm long, 2-7 mm high, 3-7 mm wide; valves semi-circular, smooth, velvety, glabrescent. Seed obovate, 12-18 mm long; seed body oblong to semi-elliptic, 7-11 mm long, 3-7 mm wide, smooth or slightly rugose.
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A small shrub. It grows 0.6-3 m high. It spreads 1.5-3 m wide. The leaves are stiff and dark. They are oblong and with small teeth along the edge. The new growth is rust coloured and woolly. The flowers are pale yellow. The buds are blue-grey.
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