Low spreading to erect shrub 0.3-1.0 m tall. Leaves linear to narrowly obovate, 1-14 cm long, 2-10 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; upper surface finely granulose; lower surface usually partly exposed, densely subsericeous to villous. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, usually simple, deflexed, subsecund-umbelloid to wheel-like, 4-8-flowered, opening uncertain; floral rachis 2-7 mm long, villous. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth pubescent or sparsely to densely tomentose outside (densely so on limb), pubescent inside; tepals with a median ridge. Pistil 7-11 (-15) mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style pubescent, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; style-end rounded to apiculate; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 12-17 mm long, tomentose.
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