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Shrublet 0·5–0·75 m. tall, often spreading, canescent to glaucous with a short greyish velvety indumentum and additional long soft patent white hairs (rarely very sparse or almost lacking); stems greyish-or yellowish-green when young, soon glabrescent and becoming pale-purplish-brown, ultimately woody with an ash-grey smooth or finely longitudinally fissured bark.
Calyx 9–12 mm. long, widely campanulate, incised beyond the middle; lobes 6–8 mm. long, triangular-ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate-apiculate, with a prominent median vein and usually in addition with a faint longitudinal vein on either side.
Small shrub, 0.50-0.75 m high. Indumentum of branches, petioles, pedicels and calyx tufte stellate-tomentose with additional simple patent hairs up to 2 mm long. Leaf margins shallowly serrate or crenate. Mericarps 20-30. Flowers yellow.
Flowers yellow, solitary, axillary on main branches (not on condensed short axillary shoots); pedicels (10) 25–50 mm. long, slender, terete, articulated near the apex.
Mericarps 20–30, c. 7 × 5 mm., ultimately black, 1-seeded, the upper edge slanting upwards into the usually sharply pointed to shortly apiculate dorsal apical angle.
Petals 11–14 × 8 mm., conspicuously ciliate in basal narrowed portion, often marked with reddish spots at the base and reddish-veined in lower portion.
Fruit c. 14 × 5 mm., discoid-subglobose, truncate at the apex and widely umbilicate in the centre, stellate-hairy.
Staminal tube rather shortly conical, sparsely stellate-hairy to glabrous except at the very base.
Seeds c. 2·5 mm. long, punctate-verruculose.
