Spreading shrub up to c. 2 m. tall; branches rather slender, bark almost black; branchlets ∞, slender, rather close-set, bark reddish brown. Sheath ± 5 mm. long, narrowed to subfiliform lamina ± 30-40 × 1-1·5 mm., narrowed to acute apex; margins minutely ciliolate. Fls solitary or in 2-4-(6)-fld racemes ± 2 cm. long; sheaths of bracts with pale ciliolate margins, rather abruptly narrowed to linear lamina. Sepals ovate-triangular, obtuse, ciliate on margins, pubescent on back. Corolla-tube subcampanulate, oblong, 3-4 mm. long; lobes white, c. 2 mm. long, ovate-triangular, obtuse.

Erect, up to c. 2 m. tall, branches stout, strict, with dark chestnut-brown to nearly black bark; branchlets strict, crowded. Lvs rather rigid, close-set, crowded towards tips of branchlets. Sheath cililate, thin-margined, (10)-12-(15) × (3)-4-7 mm., passing by subtruncate shoulder into lamina (3)-6-8 cm. × (1)-2-(3) mm., tomentose above, glab. below, gradually tapering to subpungent apex; margins densely clad in silky hairs, very minutely serrulate. Infl. of 3-6-fld racemes ± 3 cm. long, or fls solitary. Bracts broad-ovate with subulate tips and white ciliolate margins, pubescent above near tips. Fls shortly peduncled, inconspicuous; sepals pubescent near tips, ovate, ± = corolla-tube which is 3-4-(5) mm. long. Corolla-lobes ovate-oblong, obtuse. Capsule obovoid.

2n = 26