Low spreading shrub 0.3-1.5 m tall. Leaves oblong-elliptic to narrowly ovate, 0.5-3 cm long, (1-) 3-15 mm wide; margins recurved, often more revolute near apex; upper surface smooth and glossy or matt and strongly granulose; lower surface usually exposed, glabrous or with scattered hairs along midvein only. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, simple to 4-branched, erect to decurved; unit conflorescence a dense irregular to semi-secund cluster, (4-) 8-18-flowered, basipetal; floral rachis 2-5 mm long, loosely to sparsely tomentose. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Perianth usually glabrous outside or sometimes with a few erect hairs on limb, bearded inside. Pistil 16-23 (-28.5) mm long; ovary subsessile to shortly stipitate, loosely villous; stipe 0.5-1.4 mm long; style loosely villous becoming glabrous at or near apex, weakly to moderately exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 13-14 mm long, sparsely tomentose, longitudinally ridged.
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