Erect to spreading shrub 1-2.5 m tall. Leaves ±oblong, 5-17 cm long, 8-23 mm wide, regularly dentate with 5-17 small (to 4 mm long) subtriangular weakly spinose teeth per side, not or scarcely pungent; margins flat (not recurved); lower surface silver-sericeous with straight hairs. Unit conflorescence usually decurved or deflexed, secund; floral rachis 20-50 mm long. Flower colour: perianth brownish pink to purple; style lilac-pink with a pale yellow apex. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside. Pistil 14-15 mm long; stipe 0.6-1 mm long; style glabrous. Follicle 8-9 mm long, subsericeous.
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