Spreading to erect shrub 1-2.5 m tall. Branchlets angular, subsericeous between ridges. Leaves linear or occasionally very narrowly elliptic, 2.5-5.5 (-8) cm long, 0.8-2 mm wide, crowded or not but not in clusters of 3; upper surface sparingly punctate, with veins slightly granular; margins refracted (sometimes forming a short vertical 'wall'); lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence erect, usually terminal, sessile or pedunculate (peduncles to 6 (-30) mm long), exceeded by adjacent leaves, regular and umbelloid, 8-20-flowered. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth white to pale pink, with brownish hairs on limb; style white to pink. Perianth subsericeous or sparsely so outside, bearded inside. Pistil 6-7.5 mm long; style strongly hooked just below apex, glabrous except for minute hairs or papillae in apical 1 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid-ellipsoidal, 6.5-10 mm long, faintly colliculose.
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