Branchlets puberulous. Leaves 0.8-1.5 cm long, alternate, opposite or ternate, erect-spreading, lanceolate-or linear-oblong (elliptic-oblong when expanded), obtuse, rounded at the base, convex above, with a revolute margin often covering the lower face, minutely puberulous, with glands on the margin and scattered beneath. Flowers 1-4 together, axillary, distinctly below the ends of the branchlets. Peduncles 4-5 mm long, puberulous, subtended by oblong obtuse bracteoles. Sepals 1.25-1.5 mm long, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, obtuse, recurved, puberulous, ciliate, with many glands. Petals 3-4 mm long, oblong-ovate or elliptic, obtuse, cuneate at the base, slightly concave above, sparsely puberulous beneath. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 1.25-1.75 mm long, lanceolate or oblanceolate, tipped with a minute gland, ciliate, sparsely pubescent beneath. Disk crenulate. Ovary studded with glands, puberulous on the apex, with 5 carpels without processes. Style sparsely puberulous on the lower half. Fruit with stalked glands on the apices of the carpels.
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Resprouting shrublet to 40 cm. Flowers in small, lax, axillary clusters below stem tips, white or pale pink. Fruits 5-chambered, processes ± absent.