Shrub 0.5-2 m tall. Branchlets angular and ridged, subsericeous. Leaves either obovate or elliptic to sublinear, and 1-3 (-5) cm long, (2-) 3-9 mm wide, or linear, and 6-12 cm long, 1-3 mm wide; upper surface sparingly punctate, granulose along veins; margins refracted about intramarginal vein; lower surface at least partly exposed, sericeous. Conflorescence terminal, deflexed, sessile or shortly pedunculate, loosely secund, many-flowered. Flowers acroscopic. Perianth subsericeous to loosely so outside with biramous hairs and often also scattered inconspicuous minute erect hairs, bearded inside. Pistil 14-19 mm long; style gently curved or sharply decurved in apical 4 mm, glabrous except for minute erect hairs and papillae in apical 1-4 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ellipsoidal to narrowly ovoid, 9-16 mm long, colliculose.
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