Stout virgate shrublets up to 1 m tall, or branches slender, wiry, ± procumbent. Leaves 1-5.5 cm long, 1-7 mm broad, linear to narrowly oblong or linear-elliptic, frequently mucronate. Racemes lax, several-to many-flowered. Sepals 2-4 mm long, ovate-oblong to ovate-cordate, firm, smooth or minutely cartilaginous-papillate with the papillae in rows; the outer 2 cucullate, thickened at the tip; the inner 2 saccate, membranous-margined. Petals 0.8-2 cm long, 2.5-9 mm broad, broadly oblanceolate to oblong-obovate, rounded, clawed, the claw often widening slightly near the base. Filaments 1.4-1.6 mm and 2-2.4 mm long. Anthers 1-1.6 mm long, minutely pointed. Ovary with the style and stigma half, to nearly as long as the ovary itself. Fruiting pedicels 0.4-1 cm long, erect or recurved. Siliculae 2.8-4 mm high, 5.5-7 mm broad, of 2 almost spherical, keeled, densely papillose or ± rugose loculi, with the sepals persistent and slightly accrescent; style 0.8-2.8 mm long, stout. Flowering time is from August to December, but mainly September to November.
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Willowy shrublet, up to 1 m tall. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Flowers large and showy, white to pink to purple. Fruit subglobose, papillose.
Willowy shrublet to 1 m. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Flowers white to pink to purple. Fruits subglobose, papillose.
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