Shrub to 2 m high, usually spreading. Leaves linear or narrowly cuneate to obovate, rarely filiform, (0.7-) 2-5 (-9) cm long, (0.6-) 2.5-8 (-12) mm wide; margins recurved to revolute, sometimes ±flat and thickened; lower surface sericeous or glabrous. Indumentum usually terminal on axillary branchlets, sometimes axillary, rarely cauline, erect, simple, usually ±sessile, basipetal, 1-4 (-10)-flowered; floral rachis 0.2-1.5 mm long. Flowers abaxially oriented; pedicels 3-5.5 mm long. Perianth with scattered appressed hairs outside, denser on limb where sometimes subsericeous, bearded inside almost to limb. Pistil 7-10.5 mm long, glabrous; ovary stipitate; style not exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicles obliquely ellipsoidal, 10-14 (-16) mm long, colliculate-rugulose, glabrous.
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