Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 2.75-4.5 mm long, alternate, crowded, erect-spreading, ovate, rarely lanceolate-ovate, obtuse, sub-acute or acute, rounded at the base, slightly incurved at the apex, concave and sparsely puberulous or glabrous above, ciliate, ecarinate, ± scabrid pubescent and with prominent glands beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 0.5-0.75 mm long, puberulous, with narrowly oblanceolate puberulous bracteoles on the upper half, subtended by oblanceolate ciliate bracts. Sepals 2.5 mm long, spathulate or obovate-oblong, obtuse, concave and glabrous above, ciliate, ecarinate, glandular and pubescent beneath on the upper half. Petals 5-7 mm long; blade obovate or rotund, sparsely pubescent above on the lower part, with a gland behind the apex; claw 1.5-2 times as long, narrowly linear, sparsely pilose above. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes about 3.25 mm long, partly adnate to the petals, slender, subspathulate at the apex, pilose on the slender free portion. Disk divided at the margin into 5 transversely oblong lobes. Ovary puberulous, with 1 carpel without any evident process. Style pilose.
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Single-stemmed, yellowish green, leafy shrub to 1 m, liquorice-scented. Flowers in dense heads, white to mauve. Fruits 1-chambered, without horn.