Shrub 0.4-2.5 m high. Leaves narrow-elliptic to-oblong or slightly-obovate or sublinear, 0.7-3.5 cm long, 2-4 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; upper surface glabrous with age and faintly granulose; lower surface mostly or wholly exposed, subsericeous. Unit conflorescence subumbelloid, basipetal. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth pale brown (hairs) outside, pink with overlying grey hairs inside; style pinkish grey (hairs). Perianth subsericeous to appressed-subvillous outside, villous or lanate inside. Pistil 9-12 mm long, subsericeous to appressed-tomentose; style-end with or without a short antrorse apiculation to c. 1 mm long extending just beyond distal rim of pollen-presenter; pollen-presenter oblong-elliptic in face view. Follicle ovoid, 18-20 mm long, sparsely pubescent.
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