Dense rounded shrub 0.6-2.2 m tall. Leaves linear, 1.5-8 cm long, 1.0-1.7 mm wide; margins angularly revolute; upper surface finely and densely granulose; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved, subsericeous in grooves. Conflorescence axillary or cauline, usually simple, 1-6-flowered in a loose cluster, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.7-1.5 mm long, villous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Perianth subvillous outside, bearded inside; tepals remaining coherent. Pistil 18-25 mm long; ovary subsessile to obscurely stipitate, villous; style villous, sometimes glabrous to minutely pubescent in apical 2-3 mm; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicle ovoid to ellipsoidal, 10-13 mm long, villous, with longitudinal ridging.
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