Erect shrubs c. 30 cm tall. Hairs mid-brown, appressed to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 15-30 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, compressed, with 6 prominent, parallel veins, often slightly incurved, mostly erect, often slightly falcate, innocuous, not glaucous, moderately to densely hairy when immature, glabrescent to sparsely hairy when mature, scabrous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-20-flowered; rachis 0-6 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 6-14 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 9.5-11 mm long, acuminate, densely hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 1-1.3 mm long, recurved through 180°. Ovary densely hairy.