Dwarf shrub, up to 1 m high. Leaves 3.5-6.0 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, often slightly recurved above middle, rotund or orbicular, with a recurved mucro, slightly concave above, with large scattered glands beneath. Flowers in lax, terminal clusters, white with purple dots; bracteoles absent. Sepals 2-3 mm long, widely oblong or widely obovate, narrowing to an apiculus, widely membranous at margins, rounded and glabrous beneath. Petals 4.0-4.5 mm long, obovate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, cuneate at base, puberulous above near base. Staminodes 1.5-2.5 mm long, linear, emarginate, margins pubescent. Ovary 3-carpellate, with rotund hispid or glabrous processes; style glabrous. Flowering time Sept., Oct.
Rounded, densely leafy shrub to 1 m, coppicing from a woody caudex, turpentine-scented. Flowers in lax, terminal clusters, white with purple dots. Fruits 3-chambered.