Spreading shrub, 0.2-1.8 m high. Leaves entire, oblong to narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate or rarely sublinear, 1.5-8 cm long, 3.5-15 (-35) mm wide; margins recurved to loosely revolute; upper surface soon glabrous and granular; lower surface subsericeous, tomentose, or subvelutinous. Conflorescence usually terminal and simple, basally decurved, loosely hemispherical to shortly subcylindrical or subsecund, acropetal; floral rachis 5-45 mm long, tomentose. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth pubescent to tomentose or villous outside, bearded inside in lower third. Pistil 9-19.5 mm long; ovary sessile, white-villous; style villous, scarcely exserted from bud before release of style-end; pollen-presenter very oblique to lateral. Follicle ovoid to ellipsoidal, 10.5-17 mm long, loosely villous, ridged.
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