Bushy shrub 0.8-2.5 m high. Branchlets sericeous. Leaves ascending, entire, linear, 2-15 cm long, 1-2 mm wide; margins smoothly revolute; lower surface 2-grooved, enclosed except for midvein, subsericeous in grooves. Unit conflorescence erect, umbelloid to subglobose, acropetal; floral rachis 4-8 mm long, tomentose. Flowers adaxially oriented; pedicels with appressed biramous and erect glandular hairs. Flower colour: perianth cream to greenish cream; style cream tinged pink or green with a green style-end. Perianth with scattered simple-glandular and biramous hairs outside, glabrous inside or papillose or shortly bearded near base. Pistil 12-17 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter very oblique to lateral. Follicle ovoid with a rounded apiculum, 17-21 mm long, glabrous, faintly granulose.
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