Spreading or procumbent, usually low mounded shrub 0.2-1.5 m tall. Leaves ascending, sometimes clustered on short lateral branchlets, entire, narrowly elliptic to-obovate or linear, 0.5-4 cm long, 0.5-10 mm wide; margins shortly recurved to loosely revolute; upper surface glabrous and granular or scabrid, or subsericeous; lower surface enclosed including midvein and 1-grooved, or exposed and tomentose to lanate. Conflorescence usually terminal on short lateral branchlets, sometimes also subterminal axillary and 2-flowered, simple, a loose 2-10 (-16)-flowered cluster, irregular to subsecund, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.5-5 (-10) mm long, tomentose to villous. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth subsericeous to loosely so outside, or glabrous below a subsericeous limb, bearded inside; tepals remaining coherent. Pistil 21.5-28.5 mm long; ovary stipitate, sericeous; style with a loose appressed to ascending indumentum in basal half becoming sparser or glabrous above; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 11-15 mm long, pubescent to subvillous.
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