Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 5-6 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acute or obtuse, rounded at the base, concave and glabrous or sparsely pilose above, rounded tuberculate-scabrid and pilose beneath, becoming glabrous. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 1-2 mm long, puberulous, with linear ciliate bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 2-2.25 mm long, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate, oblong, lanceolate-or oblanceolate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, concave and glabrous above, hyaline and ciliate at the margin, obtusely keeled and glabrous or sparsely setose beneath. Petals 5-5.5 mm long; blade elliptic-oblong, obtuse, glabrous; claw as long, filiform sparsely ciliate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 4-4.5 mm long, linear-oblong in the upper half, obtuse, filiform ciliate and adnate to the petals in the lower half. Ovary pubescent on the apex, with 2 carpels bearing very small rounded processes. Style pilose.
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Resprouting, much-branched, cushion-like shrublet to 75 cm. Flowers in dense, terminal heads, white or pale pink. Fruits 2-chambered with small horns.