Erect shrub 1.5-2.5 m high. Branchlets subsericeous, terete. Leaves entire, 1-2 (-4.5) cm long; juvenile and lower leaves sometimes broadly elliptic, 3-10 mm wide, and bifacial with surfaces ±similar, subsericeous, becoming almost glabrous towards midline; adult and upper leaves unifacial, linear to subterete, markedly incurved, 0.7-1 mm wide, sometimes faintly ribbed, subsericeous. Conflorescence erect, pedunculate, terminal or upper axillary, simple or branched; unit conflorescence (2.5-) 4.5 cm long, cylindrical, ±synchronous or basipetal; floral rachis silver-sericeous, occasionally sparsely so or glabrous, usually brown (sometimes yellow) beneath indumentum. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style creamy white. Perianth glabrous; tepals free and spreading after anthesis. Pistil 5.5-6 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter narrowly conico-cylindrical. Follicles obliquely narrowly obovoid to obovoid, 7.5-10 mm long, smooth.
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