Erect to spreading shrubs 1-3 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets sparsely to moderately hairy. Leaves narrowly to broadly ovate to elliptic, 1.5-6 cm long, 4-25 mm wide, flat, suberect, straight, twisted at base through 90°, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-16-flowered; rachis 0-18 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 9-23 mm long, recurved, glabrous; tepals 10-12 mm long, apiculate to caudate, glabrous to sparsely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous to moderately hairy; hairs greyish; ovules 2.
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