Shrub 1?-3 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, entire, obovate to subspathulate, (1.0-) 1.2-3.2 cm long, 7-13 mm wide; margins flat; surfaces similar, densely sericeous with shiny almost transparent biramous hairs. Conflorescence terminal, scarcely exceeding foliage, erect, simple or with 2 or 3 ascending basal branches; unit conflorescence cylindrical to shortly so, 2-4 cm long, subsynchronous-irregular. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour not known, probably cream. Perianth loosely open-villous outside, glabrous inside. Nectary minutely linguiform. Pistil 6.5-8 mm long; stipe and ovary loosely villous on dorsal side (ground tissue usually visible); style glabrous; pollen-presenter erect, conical, with a broad basal rim. Follicle compressed ellipsoidal, 10-12 mm long, with a lip-like flange along ventral edge of each valve, loosely hairy when young, viscid.
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