Spreading shrubs 0.8−1.5 (–3) m high. Young stems densely tomentose with erect to spreading stalked radial fascicled hairs of varying sizes; intrapetiolar hair tufts absent. Leaves subsessile or indistinctly petiolate, spreading, obovate to oblanceolate, 3−30.5 mm long, 1.8−10.2 mm wide, discolourous; margins entire, slightly recurved but not obscuring the abaxial surface; adaxial surface flat to ± folded lengthwise or grooved along the midrib, sparsely to moderately pubescent to velutinous with erect simple and antrorse twinned or radial fascicled hairs, ± glabrescent; abaxial surface with narrow midrib rarely raised above recurved margins, densely tomentose with spreading stalked radial fascicled hairs; apex truncate to emarginate or rounded, sometimes with a recurved, excurrent midrib. Flowers single, mostly terminal on short lateral branches, pedicellate; pedicels (3–) 4−12 (–18) mm long, with indumentum as for young stems. Bract 1, subtending the calyx, herbaceous, spathulate to linear-oblanceolate, 3.3−5.5 mm long, with indumentum as for the leaves. Sepals 5.1−7.4 mm long, herbaceous; abaxial surface densely tomentose to hirsute or rarely velutinous with large, radial fascicled hairs over smaller ones and with fascicled cilia on the margins; adaxial surface glabrous or sparsely to moderately puberulous towards the apex with simple or sessile antrorse fascicled hairs; outer sepals linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, ridged, acute; inner sepals ovate, not ridged, acute to obtuse. Petals 5, yellow, oblong-oblanceolate to obovate, 6.5−9.5 mm long, shallowly emarginate to entire. Stamens 9−24, arranged around the carpels, with 1 (–3) stamens longer than the others; filaments filiform, ± free, 1.1−1.5 mm long; anthers narrowly obloid, 1.2−2.1 mm long, dehiscing by ± latrorse longitudinal slits; staminodes few, filiform. Carpels 2; ovaries obovoid, hirsute; styles spreading excentrically then erect, 2.5–3.5 mm long. Ovules 2–4 per carpel. Seeds glossy black, obovoid to almost spherical, 2.5−2.9 mm long; aril with a fleshy base expanding into a 3-or 4-lobed cup-like membrane clasping the lower half of the seed.
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