Erect, open to mid-dense shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets subsericeous. Leaves entire, 7-15 cm long, 2.5-7.2 mm wide, dorsiventral, ascending, petiolate, concolorous, linear to narrowly obovate; upper and lower surfaces similar; margins flat; venation of both surfaces consisting of several faint parallel veins. Conflorescence erect, terminal, branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, open, 9-11 cm long, acropetal; floral rachis glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs or sparsely pubescent. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style white to cream. Perianth glabrous; tepals independently revolute after anthesis. Pistil 7-8 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter shortly conical to ellipsoidal. Follicles laterally compressed-obovoid, 9-14 mm long, ridged submarginally all around, otherwise rugulose.
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