Dwarf shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves 4-5 mm long, alternate, erect-spreading, slightly recurved at apex, elliptic, widely ovate or subrotund, obtuse or with a short blunt mucro, hispidulous beneath, with large scattered glands to margins. Flowers in terminal clusters, white with red dots; bracteoles absent; peduncles 4 mm long, oblong, obtuse, convex behind apex; ciliolate, puberulous on lower half, prominently glandular beneath. Petals mm long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, cuneate at base, ciliolate, puberulous above near base. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, linear, truncate, tipped with a rotund gland, concave above, ciliate. Ovary 2-carpellate, with rounded hispid processes; styles glabrous. Flowering time June-Oct.
Single-stemmed, rounded shrub to 1.5 m, acrid or spice-scented. Flowers in lax, terminal clusters white, red-dotted. Fruits 2-chambered.