Erect shrub to 1.2 m tall. Leaves entire, linear, straight to slightly curved, 1-3.5 (-7) cm long, 1.0-1.2 mm wide; upper surface with 3-7 smooth prominent longitudinal ridges; margins angularly revolute to midvein; lower surface 2-grooved, glabrous. Conflorescence erect, subsessile, terminal or in upper axils, simple, umbelloid, acropetal; rachis 1-2 mm long, tomentose. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside, bearded inside opposite ovary; tepals independently recoiled after anthesis. Pistil 7-8 mm long; ovary subsericeous to tomentose; style hairy for c. 1 mm above ovary, glabrous above except for short erect hairs or papillae immediately below style-end, weakly exserted in late bud. Follicles erect on erect stipe, ovoid, 6-9 mm long, minutely subsericeous, becoming glabrous.
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