Erect to spreading shrubs 1-2.5 m tall. Bark smooth. Hairs greyish, appressed. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves linear, 2-5.5 cm long, 1-2.5 mm wide, flat, slightly to strongly incurved, spreading to erect, falcate, twisted through 90°, innocuous, concolorous, not glaucous, moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-10-flowered; rachis 0-6 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 3.5-7 mm long, erect, moderately to densely hairy; tepals 8-11 mm long, acute to acuminate, moderately to densely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2.