Dioecious shrublet (male and female flowers on separate plants), hairless, with many sparsely branched stems resprouting from a fire-resistant rootstock. Leaves are leathery, almost stalkless, narrow, oblong; flowers are pale yellow or orange with male flowers in axillary clusters, female flowers solitary; capsules (seedpods) round, hairless, 3-chambered.

After: Theodorus Angerius Clutius (1590-1650), Dutch botanist and Curator of the Leyden Botanical Garden.