Erect open shrub 0.5-2 m tall. Branchlets angular, ribbed, soon nearly glabrous. Leaves ±spreading, narrowly elliptic, 1-3 cm long, 1.5-3.0 mm wide, usually in well-spaced clusters of 3-5; upper surface punctate or not, with midvein and intramarginal veins prominent, smooth or faintly granular; margins shortly refracted; lower surface exposed, loosely to sparsely subsericeous. Conflorescence terminal or leaf-opposed, erect to decurved, subsessile or on peduncles to 20 mm long, simple or rarely branched, broadly secund, 10-24-flowered, acropetal. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style white, with style becoming pink after tepal drop. Perianth sparsely sericeous outside (densely so on limb), sparingly bearded inside. Pistil 7-8 mm long; style hooked in apical 1-2 mm, glabrous except for minute subapical papillae; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 10-11 mm long, colliculose.
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