Dwarf shrub, up to 0.7 m high. Leaves 3.5-5.0 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading or slightly reflexed, oblong, ovate-oblong, elliptic, ovate-elliptic or sometimes ovate, glabrous, convex, or almost flat above, slightly recurved and with conspicuous glands at margins. Flowers in terminal clusters; bracteoles 2. Calyx glabrous or puberulous; sepals 1.5 mm long, ciliate. Petals 3-4 mm long, elliptic-or ovate-oblong. Staminodes mm long, oblong-lanceolate, concave above, puberulous beneath, subquadrate and glabrous at base, tipped with an acute gland. Ovary glabrous, with 2 carpels with rotund processes; style glabrous. Flowering time all year.