Low spreading dense to erect open shrub 0.3-1 (-2) m tall. Branchlets angular and ridged, subsericeous between ridges, secund or not. Leaves linear to broadly so or very slightly oblanceolate, straight, pliable, 1.5-3.5 (-5) cm long, 0.8-1.0 (-1.3) mm wide; upper surface smooth to punctate, with midvein and intramarginal veins prominent and smooth to faintly granular; margins once or twice (vertically) refracted about intramarginal veins; lower surface exposed and subsericeous or sometimes enclosed except for midvein and then 2-grooved. Conflorescence terminal, erect, sessile to subsessile, mostly exceeded by adjacent leaves, broadly secund or subsecund (sometimes obscurely so), 4-14-flowered. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth subsericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 4.5-6.5 (-7.5) mm long; style incurved, usually hooked in apical 2 mm, with minute hairs and papillae in apical 0.5 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm long, faintly warty.
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