A much branched rigid shrub, 1-1.5 m high. Branchlets wiry, clothed with very short, grey pubescence. Leaves mostly rather widely set, ascending, 1.5-2.5 cm long, or slightly more or less: lamina elliptic, ovate elliptic, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, acute, mucronulate, rounded or tapered at base, with slightly revolute margins; upper surface widely rounded across, minutely and closely tubercled, glabrous; lower surface almost entirely exposed, covered with white tomentum, with evident secondary nerves: petiole 2-3 mm long. Racemes 0.5-1.5 cm long, terminal or axillary, sometimes clustered in small panicles, lax, tomentose on the rhachis. Bracts caducous, lanceolate, about as long as the pedicels. Pedicels 2-3 mm long, tomentose, often with 1 or 2 minute bracteoles about the middle. Flowers about 2.5 mm long, clothed with white tomentum on the outer surface: calyx-tube 0.5 mm deep, broadly campanulate, almost filled with a fleshy disc: sepals 1 mm long, deltoid-ovate, with a raised median nerve. Petals 0.75-1 mm long, inserted at the mouth of the tube: lamina orbicular, cucullate: claw about as long, oblong. Anthers 1-celled. Ovary obconic. Style 0.25 mm high, broadly conical. Stigma with humps. Fruit 8-10 mm long, considerably developed upwards so as to appear almost half superior, widely turbinate, somewhat 3-sided, with a very wide, convex calyx-area and with 10 longitudinal ridges each terminating in a boss.
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Rigid shrub, up to 2 m tall. Leaves lanceolate to ovate to broadly elliptic, 15-15 mm long, white-felted beneath, margins slightly revolute. Flowers in short, terminal racemes sometimes forming small panicles, ± 2.5 mm long, cream-coloured.
Rigid shrub to 2 m. Leaves ovate to broadly elliptic, 15-25 mm long, white-felted beneath, margins slightly revolute. Flowers in short, terminal racemes sometimes forming small panicles, cream-coloured.
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