Erect shrub 1-3 m high. Branchlets subsericeous. Leaves bifacial, entire, 1-5 cm long, 2-10 mm wide, ascending, sessile, obovate, sometimes recurved; upper and lower surfaces similar, shiny-sericeous; margins shortly and tightly involute, often also undulate; venation obscure on upper surface, the midvein and usually 2 intramarginal veins prominent below, sometimes also acutely angled lateral veins evident. Conflorescence erect, terminal or usually upper-axillary, simple or branched; unit conflorescence 3-4.5 (-7.5) cm long, cylindrical, ±synchronous; floral rachis subsericeous, occasionally sparsely so, brownish. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth white to creamy white or occasionally pale yellow, sometimes with pinkish tinges; style white to creamy white. Perianth glabrous; tepals free and ascending after anthesis. Pistil 5.5-6.5 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter conico-cylindrical. Follicles narrowly obliquely obovoid, 9-11 mm long, smooth.
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