Erect shrub 0.5–3 m high. Branchlets angled due to decurrent leaf bases, sparsely to densely stellate-hairy. Leaves narrowly elliptic to slightly oblanceolate, 24–65 mm long, 4.5–10 mm wide, entire to serrulate, obtuse to emarginate, usually glabrous or stellate hairy along midrib near base, dark green and glossy adaxially, somewhat duller abaxially. Inflorescence cymose, 9–32-flowered; pedicels 3.5–8 mm long, stellate-hairy; bracteoles c. 0.5 mm long, inserted near centre of pedicel. Sepals deltate, 1–1.5 mm long, stellate-pubescent. Petals erect, elliptic-lanceolate, 5–8 mm long, glabrous, yellow. Stamens to twice length of petals; filaments yellow. Carpels 5, with sterile apex rounded; ovary cylindrical; c. 1.5 mm high, glabrous. Cocci erect, c. 6 mm long, transversely corrugate; apex rounded and prominently rostrate on outer angle, 1.5–3 mm long.
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