Erect shrub to 1 m high. Leaves shortly petiolate, oblong, 7–15 mm long, obtuse, prominently recurved, leathery, muricate adaxially from the stout, persistent hair bases, stellate-tomentose abaxially. Umbels axillary and terminal, sessile, 1–3-flowered; pedicels 0.5–8 mm long. Calyx lobes minute. Petals broadly elliptic, c. 5 mm long, yellow, rusty-stellate abaxially, the hairs with slender branches radiating in all directions. Stamens 10, glabrous; anthers c. 1 mm long, lacking terminal gland. Carpels 2, stellate-tomentose; style glabrous; stigmas subglobular, minutely verrucose. Cocci shortly rostrate (not seen mature).
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