Branchlets with spreading pubescence. Leaves 3.5-5 mm long, alternate, ascending, subimbricate, slightly incurved, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, rounded at the base, concave and scabridous above, obtusely keeled, with many raised glands beneath, tipped with a rigid hair, yellow-green. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 1.5-2.5 mm long, sparsely puberulous, with large bracteoles at or near the apex. Sepals 2-2.5 mm long, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, membranous at the margin, ciliate, keeled on the upper half. Petals 4.5 mm long; blade ovate or rotund, villous above on the lower half; claw 1.5 times as long, linear, villous. Stamens with very sparsely pilose filaments. Staminodes 3.5 mm long, adnate to the lower part of the petals, linear, villous, with a large terminal gland. Ovary glabrous, with 3 carpels bearing clavate processes. Style glabrous.
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Dense, rounded, single-stemmed, yellow-green leaved shrub to over 1 m, mildly aromatic. Flowers in dense, terminal clusters, white. Fruits 3-chambered.
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