Shrub or shrublet. Leaves 2-6 mm long, alternate, ascending, slightly recurved above middle, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, rounded at base; glabrous, many scattered glands beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters; bracteoles 2. Sepals 0.75 mm long, oblong or deltoid-oblong, obtuse, convex beneath, glabrous. Petals 3.0-3.5 mm long; blade obovate, ± pubescent above on nerve, with a gland behind apex; claw about as long, cuneate-linear, ciliate. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, linear, obtuse, tapering to a filiform base, tipped with a gland, pilose above on lower half. Ovary glabrous, with 2(3) carpels with oblong processes; style glabrous. Flowering time May-Sept.