Erect shrub 0.5-1.5 m high. Branchlets pubescent to tomentose (hairs ±spreading). Leaves usually entire, ascending to erect, leathery, usually narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, rarely linear, 5.5-8.5 cm long, 2-10 mm wide (rarely broadly elliptic and to 22 mm wide in juveniles); margins flat to shortly incurved; upper surface densely pubescent to tomentose with venation obscured; lower surface more sparsely tomentose and faintly ribbed. Conflorescence erect, terminal or upper axillary, simple or branched; unit conflorescence 7-9 (-15) cm long, cylindrical, ±synchronous or sometimes basipetal; floral rachis initially yellow, fading to brown, glabrous or with a few appressed hairs. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style creamy white. Perianth glabrous; tepals free and ±spreading after anthesis. Pistil 7.5-10 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter sub-cylindrical. Follicles narrowly and obliquely obovoid-cylindrical, 12-18 mm long, smooth.
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