Erect to spreading shrubs to (0.15–)0.3–0.6 m high, with several to many stems at base and resprouting after fire; young branchlets sparsely to moderately pubescent with short, stellate hairs. Leaves spreading, scattered, narrowly oblong, ovate or obovate, 3–8 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, thick-textured, the margins strongly recurved to the prominent midrib and obscuring the abaxial surface; adaxial surface smooth to moderately tuberculate, usually with very short spreading simple or sub-stellate hairs from the surface or the tubercles (rarely with longer hairs when young); abaxial surface densely cottony-pubescent, mostly obscured by the margins but visible as a dense, pubescent strip between the broad, glabrous to sparsely pubescent midrib and the margins; apex obtuse, straight. Flowers sessile, terminating short-shoots or main stems; flower-subtending bracts 8–12. narrowly ovate to narrowly triangular, chartaceous, almost glabrous to pubescent (the margins minutely ciliolate), 6–8 mm long, acute, the lowermost sometimes with reduced leaf blades. Sepals ovate, 5–7 mm long; midribs not prominent; outer sepals acute to acuminate, usually glabrous with ciliolate margins; inner sepals similar in size and apex shape but broader, slightly thinner, and with an indumentum of short, sub-stellate hairs where covered by outer sepals in bud. Petals 5, yellow, broadly obovate, 8–10 mm long, emarginate or entire. Stamens 10, all on one side of the gynoecium and curving over it like a hand of bananas; filaments 0.5–0.7 mm long, fused at the base into a robust claw; anthers rectangular, 1.8–2 mm long, dehiscing by introrse, longitudinal slits. Staminodes 2(3) either side of the stamens. Carpels 2; ovaries compressed-globular, densely pubescent; styles inserted excentrically on the carpel apex, parallel and curved beneath the stamens, 1.2–1.5 mm long. Ovules 2 per carpel. Fruiting carpels and seeds not seen.