Low compact shrub to 50 cm tall or occasionally weakly erect and open to 2 m tall. Branchlets pubescent to sericeous or glabrous, angular to subterete. Leaves elliptic or narrowly so to linear or sometimes slightly obovate, 1-13 cm long, 1-10.5 mm wide; upper surface obscurely punctate; margins almost flat or recurved to irregularly revolute; lower surface exposed, sericeous. Conflorescence terminal, erect to decurved or pendant, subsessile to conspicuously pedunculate (peduncles often flexuose), sometimes 2-4-branched; unit conflorescence loosely hemispherical-subsecund to densely subglobose. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth sparsely to densely subsericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 6-11 (-13.5) mm long; style incurved, with scattered papilloid hairs over the apical 1-5 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly obloid-ellipsoidal, 11-16 mm long.