Spindly shrub, 1-1.5 m high. Leaves entire, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 0.6-3.5 cm long, (2-) 4-10 mm wide, obtuse; margins flat to shortly recurved; upper surface smooth; lower surface exposed, glabrous. Conflorescence terminal or upper-axillary, 2-10-branched or rarely simple, often deflexed near base to pendulous or on downward-directed branchlets; unit conflorescence a loose irregular to semi-secund cluster, 8-20-flowered, weakly basipetal to subsynchronous; floral rachis 3-14 mm long, glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth pale green to cream, often tinged pinkish near curve; style and pollen-presenter pink to red. Perianth glabrous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 16-18 mm long; ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous or with a few hairs only; stipe 0.5-0.7 mm long, swollen and ventrally pilose to almost glabrous; style glabrous, weakly exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ellipsoidal, 12-17 mm long, glabrous, longitudinally ridged.
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