Shrub to c. 1 m tall with ascending branches. Leaves clustered on short lateral branchlets, narrowly elliptic to linear-subterete, 0.5-3.5 cm long, 1-6 mm wide; margins revolute; upper surface soon glabrous and granular-scabrid; lower surface often enclosed and 1-grooved, when exposed then loosely villous to sublanate. Unit conflorescence subumbelloid, opening order indeterminate, 2-6-flowered, terminal on short lateral branchlets. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style (hairs) white to cream; style-end yellow, aging to reddish. Perianth villous outside and inside. Pistil 8-13.5 mm long, villous; style-end with a conspicuous subspathulate strongly curved terminal appendage (C-shaped in side view) 1.5-3 mm long, arching over pollen-presenter; appendage dorsally papillose to apex; pollen-presenter projecting from line of style, broadly oblong. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 10-13 mm long, pubescent to hispid.
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