Open to compact shrub to 50 cm high, densely stellate when young. Leaves densely crowded on short branchlets, sessile, cuneate-obcordate, 5–7 mm long, tending to conduplicate, leathery, densely stellate all over. Flowers terminal to short and long branches, solitary, sessile, closely subtended by leafy or scarious bracts. Sepals absent. Petals broadly elliptic, c. 7 mm long, yellow, stellate abaxially. Stamens 10, glabrous or stellate; anthers 1.5 mm long, lacking terminal gland. Carpels 5, rounded, stellate-tomentose; style glabrous or stellate; stigmas lobes verrucose, short and clavate or long and slender, 0.5–1.5 mm long, Cocci rounded, not beaked.
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