Spreading to erect shrub, 0.3-3.5 m tall. Leaves entire, elliptic or narrowly so to obovate or round, 0.4-4 cm long, 2-18 mm wide; margins recurved; upper surface granulose; lower surface loosely villous to subsericeous or sparsely so. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, usually simple, erect to decurved, a loose semi-secund cluster, (2-) 6-18-flowered, basipetal; floral rachis 3-9 mm long, tomentose to villous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth mid to pale green, sometimes with red or brown markings, ageing to almost black; style red or purplish with a green tip. Perianth hairy (usually tomentose) outside with mostly pale hairs, bearded inside in lower third. Pistil 18-28 mm long; ovary sessile, villous; style loosely villous, moderately exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter very oblique to lateral. Follicle ovoid, 13-20 mm long, loosely villous; style persistent, usually deflexed, sometimes decurved or erect.
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