Sprawling to semi-erect shrubs to 0.2 m high, spreading to 0.3 m, the stems erect at first becoming decumbent with age, resprouting after fire; branchlets with sparse, pilose hairs over a shorter, moderately dense pubescence, tardily glabrescent; older stems decorticating in papery strips. Leaves spreading, scattered, broadly elliptic to broadly obovate, (15–)20–30(–40) mm long, 10–20 mm wide, with a few short, blunt teeth in the upper half, flat but the margins slightly thickened; adaxial surface sparsely pilose with spreading hairs to 3 mm long over a sparse pubescence of short, erect hairs 0.1–0.2 mm long; abaxial surface as for abaxial but the hairs sparser, pale green to pale grey beneath the indumentum; apex obtuse. Flowers sessile, axillary, subtended by 4–6 dark brown to blackish, scarious, broadly ovate, obtuse to apiculate, glabrous (lowermost sometimes minutely pubescent) bracts to 10 mm long. Sepals ovate, 8–10 mm long, abaxially densely silvery appressed-pubescent with hairs to 0.3 mm long and with white, pilose hairs to 2 mm long restricted to the margin in the lower half, adaxially moderately to densely finely appressed-pubescent throughout; midribs not prominent; outer sepals acute to broadly and shortly acuminate; inner sepals similar to the outer in size, shape, apex and indumentum but broader; buds acute to very shortly rostrate. Petals yellow, obovate, 12–18 mm long, emarginate. Stamens 50–65, distributed evenly around the gynoecium, free; filaments 2–2.5 mm long, closely appressed to the gynoecium; anthers oblong to rectangular, 0.6–1.5 mm long, dehiscing by short, introrse, longitudinal slits near the apex. Staminodes and reduced stamens sometimes present. Carpels 3 or 4; ovaries globular, densely pubescent; styles excentrically spreading-erect from near the carpel apex, 2.5–3 mm long. Ovules 2 per carpel. Seeds not seen.