Spreading, much-branched shrub to 0.7 m high, sometimes resinous on young shoots and flower buds. Young branchlets ± terete, densely hairy; hairs stellate. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 10–30 mm long, 6–12 mm wide; apex obtuse to rounded; abaxial surface densely hairy with ± sessile, white stellate hairs c. 1 mm across. Flowers axillary, pedicellate, solitary; pedicels 3–11 mm long (♂, ♀), sparsely to densely stellate hairy. Male flowers: receptacle c. 1 mm across, minutely hairy; stamens 9–11. Female flowers: calyx lobes suborbicular or ovate, 0.5–1 mm long; ovary densely stellate hairy, 2-or 3-locular; stigma calyptriform. Fruit ±ovoid, 6–6.5 mm long, sparsely hairy; persistent calyx lobes c. one tenth of fruit length.