Low elevation, open, dry forest remnants and open thickets, on talus or rocky slopes, and on coralline plains
Elevation
0-500 m
Habit
Shrubs 0.5-2 m tall.
Leaves
Leaves obovate to broadly elliptic or suborbicular, 2-12 cm long, 1.5-7.3 cm wide, densely white strigose, leaf surface usually obscured, especially lower surface, the hairs sometimes spreading, 0.5-1.5 mm
long.
Flowers
Spikes congested, 3-25 cm long, the rachis densely white pubescent or tomentose, 1.5-2.5(-3) mm in diameter, the hairs spreading to appressed, 0.5-2 mm long, peduncles 0.6-3.4 cm long; sepals subequal,(8-)9-10.5 mm long, apex acute, subtended by a lanceolate, spine tipped bract 3-6 mm long, bracteoles 4-5.3 mm long, spine tipped.
