Shrub 1-4.5 m high. Leaves ovate or elliptic in general outline, 3-8 cm long, 20-50 mm wide, coarsely 5-11-dentate with teeth spaced ±evenly around margins; surfaces similar, bright yellow-green when live, usually glabrous when adult or sometimes with a few scattered minute appressed coppery hairs persisting, usually denser along midvein. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, decurved, simple or basally 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence dense, ovoid to shortly subcylindrical; ultimate floral rachis 10-30 (-45) mm long. Flower colour: perianth green becoming cream then pale yellow; style pale green to white with a green tip. Perianth glabrous or subsericeous outside, white-villous inside; tepals everting after anthesis with beard displayed. Pistil 18.5-22 mm long, glabrous. Follicle ellipsoidal, 8.5-16 mm long, glabrous.
Grows in open woodland or shrubby associations, often rocky situations in skeletal sandy soils or beside watercourses, on sandstone, quartzite, laterite or limestone substrates.
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