Shrub to c. 2 m high, with spreading habit and angular shoots. Young shoots and lvs densely clothed in silky hairs, pinkish brown, becoming glabrous. Lvs sessile, 5-11 cm × c. 4 mm, narrow-linear, rigid, green and strongly coriaceous at maturity, aromatic when bruised, glandular-punctate below; midrib prominent and lateral; veins forming thickened margins; apex pungent-acute. Infl. densely hairy at first, becoming glabrous, 6-9 cm long. Sepals c. 2 mm long, ± broad-ovate, pinkish. Petals c. 5 mm diam., green, ± hairy outside. Stamens 2-3 cm long; filaments deep crimson, occasionally paler; anthers c. 1-1.5 mm long, dark reddish. Style slightly < stamens, deep crimson. Fruiting receptacle c. 5 mm diam., with capsule deeply sunken inside.