Shrub 0.6-1.5 m high. Leaves linear to very narrow-elliptic or slightly-obovate, 1-3 cm long, 1.0-1.5 (-2.0) mm wide; margins revolute; upper surface sparsely hairy, soon glabrous and granulate; lower surface mostly enclosed, subsericeous to subvillous. Unit conflorescence umbelloid-subglobose, basipetal. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth with brownish hairs outside especially on limb; inner surface with white to grey indumentum tinged pink by ground tissue; style with white to grey hairs over purplish pink ground tissue. Perianth subvillous outside and inside, often persistent in fruit. Pistil 9-12 mm long, villous; style-end lacking apical appendage; pollen-presenter very oblique to lateral, obovate, flat to slightly convex. Follicle obliquely ovoid, 12 mm long, loosely villous, rugulose.
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