Shrubs, erect or mound-forming, 1-3 m; burl absent; twigs sparsely short-hairy, glandular-hairy. Leaves erect; petiole 5-8 mm; blade gray-glaucous, dull, narrowly elliptic or oblong-elliptic to ovate, 2-3 × 1-2 cm, base rounded or truncate, margins entire, plane, surfaces smooth, finely appressed-tomentose, ± glabrescent. Inflorescences panicles, 4-7-branched; immature inflorescence branches ascending to erect, axis 1.5-2.5 cm, 1+ mm diam., sparsely short glandular-hairy; bracts not appressed, (spreading), leaflike, linear-lanceolate, 6-12 mm, apex acuminate, surfaces finely glandular-hairy. Pedicels 3-8 mm, finely glandular-hairy. Flowers: corolla white, conic to urceolate; ovary densely white-hairy, sparsely glandular. Fruits globose, 6-8 mm diam., sparsely hairy or glabrous. Stones partially distinct or connate. 2n = 26.
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