Shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves usually 5-10 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, oblong, elliptic-oblong, oblong-or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subacute, rounded or subcordate at base, ± concave and glabrous or hispid above, slightly revolute, somewhat crenate, with marginal glands, rarely with stalked glands on margins, glabrous, or ± hispid beneath, with a slightly raised nerve. Flowers in terminal clusters, white; bracteoles 2. Sepals 1.25-1.50 mm long. Petals 3.0-3.5 mm long, elliptic-oblong or obovate, obtuse, tapering to a narrowly cuneate base, ciliolate or puberulous above on lower half. Staminodes 1.25-2.00 mm long. Ovary puberulous on apex, with (1)2 carpels, with rotund, setose processes; style glabrous. Flowering time all year.
Willowy, single-stemmed shrub to 1.5 m, herb-scented. Flowers in terminal clusters, white. Fruits 1(2)-chambered.