Crowea exalata

Usually erect but sometimes prostrate shrub, to 1 m high; branchlets slender, scarcely angled, puberulous between decurrent leaf-bases or sometimes glabrous. Leaves linear, narrow-spathulate or narrow-elliptic, 5–32 mm long, 1–4 mm wide, apex rounded to obtuse and apiculate, base attenuate, glabrous. Flowers axillary or terminal on a short axillary shoots; pedicel 2–4 mm long; sepals slightly hairy to glabrous, finely ciliate, 1.5–2.5 mm long; petals narrow- to broad-ovate, pink to pale mauve, 5–12 mm long; stamens slightly imbricate, sterile appendages of anthers c. 2 mm long. Follicles more or less erect, c. 7 mm long.