Shrub 1.5-2.5 m tall. Leaves ovate or slightly obovate or narrowly oblong to elliptic, 1-2 cm long, 3-8.5 mm wide; margins recurved; upper surface granulose or rarely smooth; lower surface exposed, with a loosely appressed to weakly ascending indumentum of short often matted hairs, with occasional longer hairs weakly emergent. Unit conflorescence subumbelloid, basipetal. Flowers abaxially oriented, sometimes almost basiscopic. Perianth tomentose to villous outside, sublanate inside. Pistil 11-21 mm long, subvillous or tomentose; style-end either with a retrorsely directed to erect or rarely antrorse dorsal horn-like hairy appendage 2-4 mm long, or appendage absent or obscure; pollen-presenter lateral (sometimes appearing transverse on reflexed style apex), circular or rarely broadly elliptic in face view, slightly convex. Follicle obliquely ovoid, 18-22 mm long, sparsely villous.
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