Erect to spreading shrub 1.5-2.5 m tall. Branchlets angular to terete, villous to tomentose. Leaves ovate to elliptic or slightly obovate, 0.9-8.5 cm long, (10-) 15-30 mm wide; upper surface dull, granulose to almost smooth; margins shortly recurved to revolute; lower surface exposed, velutinous or villous to loosely so. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, decurved, pedunculate, sometimes basally branched; unit conflorescence a loose ovoid to shortly cylindrical cluster, 6-20-flowered; floral rachis 11-22 (-36) mm long. Perianth loosely tomentose to subvillous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 17-22 mm long; style sparsely pubescent in apical 2-5 mm; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle 15-20 mm long, with faint longitudinal ridges.
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