Shrub 20–35 cm high. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic or obovate, flat, concolorous; lamina 15–30 mm long, c. 8 mm wide. Inflorescence erect or pendulous; involucral bracts 4, broadly ovate, 9–20 mm long, c. 10 mm wide; inner bracts sparsely hairy inside, often slightly ciliate. Flowers bisexual, glabrous inside or with a ring of short hairs at throat. Hypanthium probably not circumscissile, c. 9 mm long; ovary-portion with reflexed hairs; style-portion c. 6 mm long, reflexed-hairy at base, with a band of long spreading hairs usually mixed with short hairs above and often with medium-sized antrorse hairs at summit. Sepals 3–4 mm long. Stamens greatly exceeding sepals; filament 4–5 mm long; semi-latrorse.
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