Erect shrub or small tree, c. 1–5 m high; branchlets minutely and sparsely pubescent. Leaves erect to spreading, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate, 15–35 mm long, 3–7 mm wide, slightly convex to flat, slightly discolorous, subglaucous beneath, glabrous; apex broadly acute, thickened and channelled. Flowers white, 6–13, in terminal and near-terminal spikes 1–3 cm long; bracteoles ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, broadly acute to obtuse, glabrous; sepals white, ovate, 1.5–1.9 mm long, acute, glabrous; corolla 3.5–5 mm long, lobes slightly longer than tube, acute, densely and shortly bearded within; anthers with recurved sterile tips; ovary 4- or 5-locular, glabrous, style 0.5–1 mm long. Fruit spherical, c. 4.5 mm diam., white and fleshy when ripe. Flowers Sep.–Nov.