Erect or occasionally low shrub 0.3-2 m high. Leaves entire, linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 0.8-4.0 cm long, 0.7-3 mm wide, acute; margins recurved to tightly revolute; upper surface smooth or rarely sparsely granulose; lower surface wholly enclosed (including midvein) and 1-grooved, or sometimes exposed and loosely tomentose to subsericeous or rarely glabrous. Conflorescence terminal, usually simple, usually decurved, a loose 4-12-flowered subumbelloid cluster or subsecund, basipetal; ultimate floral rachis 2-8 mm long, glabrous. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth glabrous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 15-22.5 mm long; ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous or villous in lower half on ventral side only; stipe swollen (almost as wide as ovary), 0.7-1.4 mm long, with hairs ventrally and laterally; style glabrous or sparsely tomentose in lower half only, scarcely to strongly exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 8-11 mm long, glabrous, with faint longitudinal ridges.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
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