Multistemmed shrub 0.2-0.5 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly obovate to elliptic, 0.5-3 cm long, 2-11 mm wide; margins shortly recurved to almost flat; upper surface smooth to finely granulose; lower surface loosely subsericeous. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, simple to 3-branched, erect; unit conflorescence a short umbelloid cluster, sometimes semi-secund, (2-) 6-10-flowered, basipetal; floral rachis 1-5 mm long, tomentose. Flowers adaxially oriented or acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth green in basal half, pinkish red above; style green. Perianth openly tomentose outside, bearded inside just below curve; tepals with apiculum 0.2-0.8 mm long; limb of bud obtuse to subacute. Pistil 18-24 mm long; ovary sessile, villous; style pubescent to tomentose, less densely so towards apex; pollen-presenter almost lateral. Follicle ovoid to obloid-ellipsoidal, 11-18 mm long, sparsely pubescent to loosely villous, faintly longitudinally ribbed; style persistent, slightly to strongly deflexed at base.
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