Multistemmed shrub 0.2-1 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 1-3 cm long, 1-5 mm wide, often varying much in size on a plant; margins revolute to recurved; upper surface granulose; lower surface often enclosed on smaller leaves, subsericeous. Conflorescence terminal or upper-axillary, ±erect, simple to 3-branched; unit conflorescence a loose subglobose to shortly subcylindrical or semi-secund cluster, 6-20-flowered, basipetal; floral rachis 2-5 mm long, sericeous to sparsely so. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth green to cream; style reddish. Perianth loosely tomentose to almost glabrous outside, bearded inside in lower third. Pistil 12.5-17.5 mm long; ovary sessile, villous; style tomentose to subvillous (white biramous hairs) also with simple erect hairs, scarcely to moderately exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter almost lateral. Follicle ovoid, 13-15 mm long, loosely tomentose, faintly ridged; style persistent, ?erect.
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