Prostrate to erect shrub to 1 m high. Leaves shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic to circular, obtuse, c. 5 mm long, recurved, leathery, glossy, glabrous or sparsely stellate or hispidulous adaxially, densely tomentose abaxially. Flowers terminal to short branchlets, solitary, sessile, subtended by several foliage leaves. Sepals ovate, 0.5–2 mm long, glabrous or stellate-pilose. Petals obovate, attenuate in lower half, 4–8 mm long, yellow, finely brown-stellate abaxially. Stamens 10, glabrous; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, lacking terminal gland. Carpels 5, stellate-tomentose; style glabrous or sparsely stellate; stigma compact and hemi-spherical or of thick tuberculate recurved lobes. Cocci not beaked.
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