Spreading to straggling shrubs to 0.5 m high, multi-stemmed at base and resprouting after fire; young branchlets comprising densely packed, thickened, pubescent, persistent leaf bases (hypopetioles). Leaves mostly crowded at the apices of short-shoots, erect at first then spreading, oblong, 4–8 mm long, 1.4–2 mm wide, the margins strongly recurved to the thickened, prominent midrib, obscuring the abaxial lamina; petiole 0.8–1.5 mm long, the hypopetiole thickened, dark brown, glabrous to sparsely pubescent especially on the margins, forming a thickened peg on the stem surface when the leaf is mature, the epipetiole very short, densely curled-pubescent; adaxial lamina not tuberculate, glabrous except for dense, curled-woolly hairs at base (sometimes sparsely hairy throughout when very young); abaxial lamina (visible only by dissection) densely pubescent; abaxial midrib broad, level with or bulging above the margins, glabrous, often with a narrow, central, yellowish sclerenchymatous stripe bordered on either side by green mesophyll; apex obtuse and pungently apiculate. Flowers sessile, terminal on short-shoots, closely subtended by crowded leaves; flower-subtending bracts 6 or 7, reddish brown, scarious (the apex often pale and indurate), narrowly triangular, narrowly acute, the primary bract 2.5–3.5 mm long. Sepals ovate, 5–5.5 mm long, moderately to densely appressed-pubescent; midribs prominent; outer sepals pungently acuminate to shortly mucronate; inner sepals similar to the outer but less acuminate and broader. Petals 5, yellow, obovate, 5.5–8 mm long, deeply emarginate. Stamens 10, all on one side of the gynoecium and curving over it like a hand of bananas; filaments c. 0.5 mm long; anthers rectangular, c. 2 mm long, dehiscing by introrse, longitudinal slits. Staminodes absent. Carpels 2; ovaries compressed-globular, densely pubescent; styles curving excentrically from the carpel apex, 1.2–1.8 mm long. Ovules 4 per carpel. Fruiting carpels and seeds not seen.