Tree 10-17 m. Branchlets terete, ferrugineous-sericeous at the tips. Leaves simple, obovate-oblong or obovate or oblong-elliptic, ± rounded at the apex, sometimes retuse, with a terminal, minute gland, cuneate and tapering into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous and greenish-olivaceous above when dry, younger ones golden-ferrugineous silky beneath, partially glabrescent at full maturity and then brownish beneath, entire, undulate at the margin, (5-)6-12(-18) by 2.5-7 cm, midrib prominent on both sides specially beneath; main nerves 7-9(-10) pairs, rather straight, ascending, anastomosing near the edge, prominent on both faces, additional intermediate ones less distinct, veins and veinlets very oblique, forming a slightly prominent net on both surfaces; petiole stoutish, 1-1.5 cm. Panicles terminal, short-peduncled, c. 12-15 cm, consisting of several divaricate many-flowered short-peduncled racemes, inferior ones of which 6-8(-10) cm, greyish silky sprinkled with additional, peltate, rusty hairs. Bracts minute, very early caducous. Pedicels stoutish, solitary or in twos, 2-3 mm. Torus slightly oblique. Perianth light-greenish, greyish-sericeous outside, papillose inside, c. 10-12 mm incl. the globose limb, manifestly recurved below the limb, angular by the carinate segments, 1.25 mm broad at the base. Disk semi-annular. Gynophore stout, 3 mm, glabrous as are the ovary and the style; style rather slender, bearing a large, lateral stigma. Follicle compressed, obliquely ellipsoid, c. 3 by 2 cm, on a 3-5 mm stoutish stipe; fruit-pedicel 4-5 mm.
In dry bush-formation on cristalline slate, from the sea-shore up to 900 m, on hilly ground, said to be scattered and rare. Fl. fr. Oct., June.
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