Erect shrub to 2 m tall. Leaves entire, obovate to sublinear, 1.5-8 cm long, 5-12 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; upper surface finely granulose; lower surface densely villous. Conflorescence axillary or terminal on lateral branchlets, erect or decurved, simple or 2-branched; unit conflorescence umbelloid, secund, 4-10-flowered, opening variable; floral rachis 1-3 mm long, villous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth dull yellow-orange; style dull yellow. Perianth villous outside, glabrous inside except for silky to wispy beard in throat; tepals with a median ridge. Pistil 6-8 mm long; ovary shortly stipitate to subsessile, villous; style villous, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid, c. 17 mm long, longitudinally ridged, sparsely villous.
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