Erect shrub 1.5-2.5 m high. Branchlets subsericeous. Leaves entire, linear (adult) or obovate (juvenile), occasionally both present, 3-16 cm long, 1-12 mm wide, sericeous on one or both surfaces; linear leaves with longitudinal ridges and obscure margins; obovate leaves with a few subparallel ridges on lower surface only and flat to slightly involute margins. Conflorescence erect, terminal or upper axillary, simple or with few ascending branches; unit conflorescence (2.5-) 4-13 (-18.5) cm long, cylindrical, ±synchronous or occasionally weakly basipetal; floral rachis subsericeous to sparsely so, usually brown (sometimes yellow) beneath indumentum, occasionally sparsely subsericeous or glabrous. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Perianth glabrous; tepals free and ascending after anthesis. Pistil 5.5-8.5 mm long, glabrous; style ±smooth; pollen-presenter narrowly conico-cylindrical with a truncate apex. Follicles 7-13 mm long, narrowly and obliquely obovoid, ±smooth to faintly colliculate.
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