Openly branched, erect, often straggling shrubs (0.2–) 0.3–0.7 m high, single-to few-stemmed at base. Young stems moderately to densely greyish-tomentose with curled simple hairs overtopped by sparse, longer pilose sinuous simple hairs. Leaves sessile, spreading, scattered, elliptic to obovate (rarely narrowly so), (15–) 30–45 (–60) mm long, (5–) 8–15 (–20) mm wide; margins entire or with a few short, blunt teeth towards the apex, narrowly recurved; adaxial surface densely and coarsely tomentose to pubescent with unequal simple hairs that are often ± matted, the surface obscured beneath the indumentum; abaxial surface as for adaxial but with the indumentum usually with slightly longer and larger hairs that are often distinctly tubercle-based; apex obtuse. Flowers single, axillary and often clustered in upper leaf axils, sessile to shortly pedicellate (the densely pubescent pedicel to 5 mm and ± hidden by the bracts, elongating somewhat in fruit). Bracts 4–6, at the base of the pedicel, dark brown to blackish, scarious, broadly ovate, acute to apiculate, 3–8 mm long, glabrous (the lowermost minutely pubescent); primary and secondary bracts similar. Sepals ovate to narrowly triangular, 5–7 mm long, abaxially densely silky-pilose with ± appressed to spreading hairs grading to shorter ones at the apex, adaxially glabrous to densely appressed-pubescent; midribs not prominent; outer sepals acute to acuminate; inner sepals similar to the outer in size, shape, apex and indumentum but slightly broader; buds acute. Petals 5, yellow, obovate, 10–14 mm long, emarginate. Stamens (22–) 30–50 (–82), distributed evenly around and closely appressed to the carpels; filaments free, 2–3 mm long; anthers oblong to rectangular, 1–1.4 mm long, dehiscing by short, introrse, longitudinal slits near the apex; staminodes or reduced stamens present or absent. Carpels 3 or 4 (5); ovaries globular, densely pubescent; styles excentrically spreading-erect from near the carpel apex, c. 3.5 mm long. Ovules 2 per carpel. Seeds globular, c. 2.3 mm in diameter, dark reddish-brown, subtended at base by an aril with finger-like projections.
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