Erect spreading shrub 1.5-3 m tall. Branchlets subterete, tomentose to subvillous. Leaves oblong to obovate or narrowly so or occasionally elliptic, 3-6 (-9) cm long, 5-22 mm wide; upper surface granulose or asperous; margins shortly recurved; lower surface exposed, velutinous or villous. Conflorescence usually terminal, decurved to pendulous, pedunculate (peduncle 10-40 mm long), sometimes branched; unit conflorescence a loose cluster, 6-16-flowered; floral rachis 8-20 (-30) mm long. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth subvillous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 14-17 mm long; style straight to gently curved, sparsely pubescent in apical 2-5 mm; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid to ellipsoidal, (?12-) 15-18 mm long, with faint longitudinal ridges.
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