Erect, much-branched, sts fastigiate shrub to 3 m. tall. Lvs 15-55 × 6-14 mm., elliptic- to oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, entire, margins flat in larger (shade) lvs, recurved in smaller lvs in full sun, petiole to 5 mm.; upper surface quite glab. in adult plants (even in young lvs) but in juvenile plants with very fine soft simple hairs; lower surface with close cover of white sessile stellate hairs, brownish stalked stellate hairs ± regularly scattered, more conspicuous on veins. Infl. of many axillary and terminal corymbs, individual clusters compact but on longer and more branched stems than in ; outer bracts pale, broadly elliptic, closely hairy; buds elongated, pale; pedicels to 3 mm. long. Fls pale, c. 4 mm. diam.; calyx-tube covered with fine close hairs, stellate except for a few simple ones; sepals c. 1*5 mm. long; petals 0; style divided to c. 1/2 length; capsule c. 3*5 mm. long, nearly 3/4 immersed in calyx-tube, narrow, pale, losing sepals early; operculum > 1/2 coccus-length; seeds long, c. 2 × 1 mm., dark brown.

2n = 48

n = 24

2n = 48

Erect shrub to c. 3 m high. Adult lvs shortly petiolate, 10-40 × 5-14 mm, narrow-elliptic to narrow-oblong; upper surface eventually glabrous, sometimes with simple hairs at first; lower surface densely clothed in sessile and stalked stellate hairs, ferruginous on veins; margins entire, not revolute; stipules 1-2 mm long, deciduous. Juvenile lvs similar but sometimes larger and slightly toothed. Infl. a rounded to sub-pyramidal, many-flowered panicle, terminal or subterminal. Calyx cream, spreading; lobes deciduous. Petals 0. Anthers oblong. Ovary with dense stellate hairs at apex, wholly immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, ⅔ immersed at fruiting. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying ⅔ of their inner faces.