Shrub or small tree up to 10 m. tall, stouter than . Branches erect or ascending, bark greyish; branchlets slender, bark greyish brown. Lvs crowded towards tips of branchlets. Sheath pale, 5-6-(10) × 2-3 mm., truncate, us distinctly auricled. Lamina canaliculate for ± halfway, semi-terete, ± 6-8-10 cm. × 1-1·5 mm.; margins serrulate, sparsely ciliolate; apex acute. Infl. of 6-8-fld racemes, ± 3 cm. long, terminal on short lateral branchlets, often clustered. Lower bracts lflike, persistent; sheaths c·5 × 2.5 mm., with acuminate lamina ± 10 mm. long. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, slightly > corolla-tube, which is 5-6 mm. long. Corolla-lobes narrowly ovate-triangular, c. 2.5 mm. long, obtuse.

2n = 26