Evergreen to semi-evergreen dense shrub to about 1 m tall. Young shoots reddish to purple brown, flattened, mostly strongly 2-edged at the branchlet tip just below the flowers but 4-edged lower down the shoot and cylindrical when mature. Leaves ovate to oblong-lanceolate, 3-6 cm long with a minute point at the tip, often 2-ranked, bluish white below, with extremely short stalk. Flowers solitary or in few-flowered clusters about 5 cm wide. Petals with unequal sides and cup-like. Sepals rounded, finely toothed (lens) with a small point at the tip. Stamens in 5 bundles half as long as the petals. Styles 5; summer. Capsule ovate, furrowed.
China
Leaves bluish-white below, often arranged directly below one another in 2 ranks, the tip with a minute point; flowers solitary or few together.
Source: (1997). Clusiaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.