A stoutly wiry much branched shrub about 1 m high, with pubescent branchlets. Leaves 0.5-1.5 cm long, alternate or ternate, usually crowded, erect-spreading, ovate or lanceolate, obtuse, rounded at the base, flat, slightly concave or convex above, gland-crenate, often slightly revolute at the margin, sparsely pubescent in some parts or glabrous, sometimes with conspicuous veins beneath, with glands confined to the margin. Flowers 1-2 together, axillary. Peduncles usually 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous or very sparsely pubescent, subtended by spathulate-oblong bracteoles. Sepals 1.25-1.5 mm long, ovate or ovate-oblong, very obtuse, concave above, ciliolate, with several large glands beneath. Petals 4-5 mm long, ovate, ovate-or elliptic-oblong, very obtuse, shortly cuneate at the base, concave in the upper half, ciliolate near the base, with several conspicuous glands beneath. Stamens glabrous, or very sparsely pubescent on the filaments. Staminodes 2.5-3.25 mm long, linear, lanceolate-linear or linear-oblong, tapering to a gland-tipped apex, sparsely pubescent beneath, ± ciliate. Disk fleshy, crenulate. Ovary shortly stipitate, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, usually with 4, sometimes with 3 or 5, warted carpels bearing widely oblong or ovate processes. Style glabrous.
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Finely leafy, aromatic shrub, up to 1.5 m tall, many-branched from base. Leaves sessile, linear-subterete, straight, obtuse or with an apical callus. Flowers terminal, solitary or paired on loosely clustered, short branchlets, white, petals minutely pubescent outside, sepals triangular.
Resprouting, dense, rounded or willowy shrub to 1 m, strongly citrus-scented. Flowers 1 or 2 in upper axils, white, mauve or purple. Fruits (3)4(5)-chambered.
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