Robust suffruticose herb or shrub 1–3 m. tall, clothed everywhere with more or less dense erect or appressed pubescence. Leaves 2–13 × 0·2–3·8 cm., narrowly linear to oblanceolate, gradually narrowed to the base, the apex acute or subacute; main veins on each side of midrib 10–20; petiole 0–4 mm. long, rarely longer. Sepals 4, (4)6–13 × 1·5–5 mm., lance-deltoid, puberulent or hirsute, often turning reddish after anthesis. Petals 6–16 × 4–16 mm., ovate or suborbicular. Stamens 8, the epipetalous ones shorter; filaments 2–5 mm. long; anthers 0·75–2 mm. long, extrorse and shedding pollen outward, not on the stigma. Pollen shed in tetrads. Disk raised up to 2 mm., each epipetalous stamen surrounded at its base by a sunken, densely white-hairy nectary. Style 2–6 mm. long; stigma globose, 1·5–2 mm. in diameter, often slightly elevated above the anthers at anthesis. Capsule 10–40 × 1·5–4 mm., thin walled, puberulent or hirsute, brown with 8 dark brown ribs, readily and irregularly loculicidal, terete; pedicel 1–10(20) mm. long. Seeds 0·75–0·8 × 0·4 mm., pluriseriate in each locule of the capsule, free, pale brown, oblong-ellipsoid; raphe c. 1/6 the diameter of the body.
