Erect to spreading shrubs 30-90 cm tall. Hairs greyish or whitish, antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves narrowly oblong to oblanceolate or, occasionally, spathulate, 1.5-3.5 cm long, 2.5-6 mm wide, flat, suberect to erect, straight to slightly falcate, twisted through 0-90°, often pungent, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence anauxotelic or auxotelic, 1-3 flowered; rachis 0-5 mm long. Flowers usually subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 1.5-4.5 mm long, erect, glabrous or moderately hairy; tepals 6.5-10 mm long, obtuse to acute, glabrous or moderately hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, 1.5-2 mm long, recurved through 90-180°. Ovary glabrous.
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