Erect shrubs or trees 1-5 m tall. Hairs greyish to tawny, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves oblanceolate to linear-oblanceolate to spathulate to narrowly spathulate, 1.3-6 cm long, 3-10 mm wide, flat to convex, usually with recurved margins, sometimes slightly incurved, spreading to suberect, sparsely to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent to moderately hairy when mature, smooth. Flowers mostly subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 3-5.5 mm long, erect to spreading, densely hairy; tepals 15-22 mm long, yellow to cream, apiculate, sparsely to moderately hairy on outside.