Prostrate to erect shrub 0.2-2 (-4) m high, to 3 m across; branches sometimes appearing columnar. Branchlets terete, tomentose to villous. Leaves spreading to ascending, often crowded on short lateral branchlets, usually rigid, narrowly ovate to subulate or linear, 5-35 mm long, 0.5-6 mm wide, usually pungent; upper surface usually with 3-5 longitudinal veins, glabrous or nearly so; margins angularly or rarely smoothly recurved to revolute, rarely ±flat; lower surface often enclosed or almost so, usually densely sericeous or occasionally openly so, rarely glabrous, or open-tomentose. Conflorescence terminal, occasionally also axillary and subterminal, usually simple or occasionally 2 (-4)-branched; unit conflorescence erect or slightly decurved, acropetal, subsecund. Perianth densely to openly subsericeous to tomentose outside, rarely subvillous especially on limb, bearded inside between 2.5 and 9 mm above base. Pistil (15-) 18-27 mm long; style glabrous except for minute scattered erect simple hairs extending from back of style-end down at least 3 mm and sometimes almost to ovary; pollen-presenter usually oblique or occasionally lateral. Follicles narrowly ovoid or oblong-ellipsoidal, 10-18 mm long.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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