Shrub 1.2-3.5 m tall. Leaves broadly obovate-cuneate or-rhombate in gross outline, 5-12 cm long, 35-80 mm wide, not pungent, entire or coarsely and shallowly 2-7-toothed with most or all teeth in apical half; surfaces similar, velvety. Conflorescence usually axillary, decurved, simple or usually 2-5-branched; unit conflorescence loosely conico-cylindrical; ultimate floral rachis 40-110 mm long; pedicels usually retrorse, 7-10 mm long. Flower colour: perianth yellow-green, becoming lemon to cream, sometimes with mauve tinges; style yellow-green to cream. Perianth glabrous outside, pilose to villous inside. Pistil 6.5-9 mm long; stipe 0.5-1.0 mm long; ovary and style coarsely pubescent with erect simple glandular hairs (these occasionally soon falling from ovary); style not exserted from perianth in late bud. Follicle laterally compressed, obliquely ellipsoidal, 18-19 mm long, glabrous.
Grows in tall open shrubland or savanna woodland, usually in rocky situations in skeletal soils, usually on slopes of sandstone or quartzite.
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