Branchlets verruculose, pubescent or villous. Leaves 4-8 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading or spreading, lanceolate, oblong-or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, rounded or subcordate at the base, slightly concave or furrowed and glabrous or pilose above, usually convex above near the slightly thickened and slightly revolute margin, with a prominent and often pilose nerve beneath terminating in a swelling behind the apex, often pilose-ciliate. Flowers in terminal clusters or the lower (in a cluster) in the axils of reduced leaves. Peduncles 3-7 mm long, glabrous, ± pubescent or with a mixture of hairs and stalked glands, with bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long, ovate-lanceolate or ovate, obtuse or subacute, ± membranous at the margin, glabrous or ± ciliate, obtusely keeled on the upper half. Petals 4.5-5.5 mm long; blade obovate or oblong-obovate, very obtuse, subcucullate at the apex, sometimes sparsely pilose above at the base; claw 2/3 or as long, narrowly linear, ciliate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 3.5-4.5 mm long, lanceolate, oblong-or linear-lanceolate, or oblong in the upper half, terminating in a round gland, tapering from the middle to the base, ± pubescent above at the middle, ciliate except near the base and apex. Ovary glabrous, puberulous at the apex or sometimes with stalked glands, with 3 carpels bearing oblong or obovate-oblong pilose or glabrous processes. Style glabrous.
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Dense, rounded shrublet to 45 cm, aniseed-scented. Flowers in terminal clusters, white or mauve. Fruits 3-chambered.