Small shrub 30–60 cm. tall; stems slender, blackish grey and rather strongly longitudinally ridged, shortly pubescent when young with yellowish white hairs on the new shoots and ferruginous hairs on last season’s wood and with some persistent hairs even at base.. Leaf-blades very narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 1–3.2 cm. long, 3–9 mm. wide, narrowly acute at the apex, cuneate at the base, glabrous save for a few white hairs on lower parts of midnerve and main lateral nerves beneath, thinly coriaceous, margined, the margin distinctly crinkling in the dry state; domatia and nodules not evident; petiole obsolete or ± 1 mm. long; stipules pale chestnut brown, ovate-triangular, 2 mm. long, pubescent, bifid or rarely entire at the apex, the lobes linear, 1 mm. long, soon deciduous.. Flowers heterostylous, 5-merous, in small subumbellate heads ± 1 cm. in diameter or in 3-branched inflorescences, each component a small head; peduncles 0.7–1.5 cm. long, pubescent; secondary branches, if present, 5 mm. long, pubescent; pedicels 1–1.5 mm. long, puberulous; bracts and bracteoles minute.. Calyx glabrous; tube depressed subglobose, 0.5 mm. tall, 1 mm. wide, perhaps ribbed in life; limb cupuliform, 0.5 mm. long; lobes ± triangular, 0.2–0.5 mm. long.. Corolla greenish white; tube 5 mm. long, distinctly tomentose outside with scaly papilla-like hairs and densely hairy inside; lobes oblong, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide.. Filaments 1.5–2 mm. long in short-styled flowers.. Style 3 mm. long in short-styled flowers; stigma-lobes 1.5–2 mm. long.. Drupes not known.. Fig. 4.
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