Rounded bushy shrub, 1.5-2.5 m tall, suckering from horizontal roots. Branchlets densely appressed-pubescent or sometimes patchily glabrescent at flowering. Leaves flat, linear, not twisted, 5-35 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, glabrescent or patchily appressed-pubescent; marginal veins prominent; longitudinal veins prominent, 1-7 above and 4-9 below. Inflorescence a solitary axillary umbelliform raceme, with 16-33 fully developed but sterile flowers; pedicels cream-white, glabrous. Perianth cream-white. Pistil 4.5-7.2 mm long; gland absent. Fruit not formed.