Shrub or small tree to 6 m high. Branchlets ±terete, minutely stellate. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly obovate, to 8 cm long, 2–8 mm wide, recurved to revolute, denticulate, acute to truncate or retuse and bidentate at apex, chartaceous, smooth and glabrous above, white stellate-puberulous below. Cymes axillary, to 1/2 length of subtending leaf, arranged along branches; flowers c. 10; pedicels slender, c. 4 mm long, subtended by a small caducous bract and with a pair of minute persistent bracteoles in lower half. Calyx lobes broadly deltate, c. 0.3 mm high, ±glabrous. Petals spreading, elliptic, c. 3.5 mm long, pale yellow to white, glabrous. Stamens ±equal to or slightly longer than petals. Gynophore c. 0.2 mm high, much narrower than ovary. Carpels 5; ovary spherical, smooth, glabrous. Cocci with apex rounded and very shortly outwardly apiculate.
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