Erect shrub 1-2.5 m high. Leaves entire, linear to very narrowly obovate or rarely subterete, 3-13 cm long, 0.5-3 (-5) mm wide/diam.; margins flat or incurved; both surfaces subsericeous to sericeous. Conflorescence on long flowering branches above foliage, terminal or axillary, usually branched; unit conflorescence subglobose to obovoid or subcylindrical, basipetal; floral rachis 5-20 mm long. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style white tinged with pink, or pale pink (rarely perianth reddish?). Perianth villous inside; tepals independently recurved after anthesis. Pistil 7.5-12 mm long; style exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter very oblique to lateral, almost flat. Follicles broadly ellipsoidal to subglobose, 8-8.5 mm long, glabrous, faintly warty to almost smooth.
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