Shrub 1-2 m tall, to 2 m across. Leaves dorsiventral, entire, obliquely elliptic, sometimes falcate, 8-13 cm long, 20-30 mm wide; margins flat; surfaces similar, finely and densely sericeous with sparkling hairs. Conflorescence erect, terminal, paniculately 2-5-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 6-12 cm long, weakly acropetal. Flowers transversely oriented with sutures extrorse. Flower colour: perianth and style cream after anthesis, sometimes tending very pale yellow. Perianth glabrous inside and out. Nectary arcuate to semi-annular. Pistil 10-13 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter an erect cone. Follicle 19-22 (-35?) mm long, compressed-ellipsoidal, shortly apiculate, rugulose, glabrous.
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