Open erect or dwarf shrub 0.2-1.8 m tall. Branchlets angular and ridged, subsericeous. Leaves linear, widely ascending to spreading, not crowded, very straight, (2-) 3-7.5 cm long, 0.7-1.3 (-2.0) mm wide, not pungent, pliable; upper surface with midvein and intramarginal veins obscure to slightly prominent and scabrid to faintly granular; margins vertically refracted (the angles soft); lower surface usually completely enclosed except glabrous midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence terminal, erect, sessile, regular and umbelloid, exceeded by the ascending foliage, c. 8-20-flowered. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth white with a brown limb (hairs); style white sometimes becoming tinged pink or red with age. Perianth subsericeous to sparsely so outside, conspicuously bearded inside opposite ovary. Pistil 7-9 mm long; style strongly curved near apex, with minute hairs or papillae in apical c. 0.5 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid-ellipsoidal, 9-10 mm long, glabrous, faintly warty.
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