Branchlets with coarse hairs. Leaves 0.6-1 cm long, alternate, erect-spreading or ascending, lanceolate-ovate or ovate, subacute, rounded or subcordate at the base, slightly incurved at the apex, concave and glabrous above, ciliate, convex, tubercled and coarsely pubescent beneath, gibbous behind the apex. Flowers in terminal clusters surrounded by spathulate scarious leaves. Peduncles 1-2 mm long, sparsely hispid, with linear-filiform bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 5 mm long, linear, obtuse, slightly widened and conspicuously ciliate on the upper half. Petals 7 mm long; blade about 2 mm long, obovate, glabrous, tapering into a widely linear ciliate claw. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 5.5 mm long, oblanceolate, concave and conspicuously ciliate on the upper half, linear towards the apex, attenuate and glabrous in the lower half. Ovary pilose on the apex, with 3 carpels bearing oblong densely pilose processes. Style pilose at the base.
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