Low multistemmed or spreading to erect shrub 0.2-1 (-2) m tall. Leaves narrowly elliptic to oblong, or linear to very narrowly obovate (15-) 20-30 (-50) mm long, 1-4 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; upper surface soon glabrous, granulose; lower surface sometimes enclosed, sparsely to densely subsericeous or rarely loosely villous. Inflorescences terminal, simple to 3-branched; unit conflorescence erect, subumbelloid or subsecund, 1-6-flowered, opening uncertain; floral rachis 1.5-3 mm long, tomentose. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth tomentose outside, bearded inside in lower third. Pistil (14-) 18-23 mm long; ovary subsessile, villous; style loosely villous on flanks and dorsal side (biramous hairs), sometimes also with erect simple multicellular ?glandular hairs in apical 3-4 mm or glabrous, scarcely exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicle (subsp. fecunda ) narrowly ellipsoidal or slightly ovoid, 11-13.5 mm long, loosely subsericeous to-subvillous, with faint dorsal ridges; style persistent, erect.
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