A grey or white rigid woody erect or sprawling shrublet. Stems 15-40 high with ascending branches. Young part and leaves covered with rather short coarse white appressed hairs. Older stems glabrescent, pale-coloured and often pruinose. Leaves small, alternate, mostly on short shoots. Leaves oblong or obovate, 0.5 x 1.5 cm long, 0.3-0.6 cm wide, flat but usually folded upwards, acute at the tip, at the base narrowed to a short petiole. Flowers small, solitary but apparently grouped on the short shoots. Perianth 3-6 mm long, covered outside with scattered appressed hairs, the segments acuminate, united at the base only. Stamens numerous. Stigmas 5. Fruit obovoid, much longer than wide, rounded or slightly lobed at the top.
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