Shrub 1-4.5 m tall. Leaves entire, oblong-elliptic, 2-6 cm long, 4-9 mm wide; margins loosely revolute; upper surface coarsely granulose; lower surface loosely appressed-subvillous. Conflorescence terminal, simple or 2-branched, on decurved to stiffly pendulous peduncles; unit conflorescence a loose cluster, 2-6 (-10)-flowered, basipetal; floral rachis 2-6 mm long, glabrous or sparsely tomentose. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth light green; style maroon with green tip. Perianth sparsely tomentose outside, bearded inside near base and openly subsericeous to glabrous above. Pistil 25-26 mm long; ovary subsessile, pubescent to villous; style loosely tomentose in basal half, becoming glabrous above, strongly exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicle narrowly ellipsoidal, attenuate, c. 20 mm long, sparsely tomentose, longitudinally ridged; style persistent, ±erect.
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