Erect or spreading shrub to 1 m high. Branches terete to slightly quadrangular, stellate-tomentose. Stellate hairs with rays to 0.1 mm long. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 6–30 mm long, 1–4.5 mm wide, obtuse; abaxial surface with a sparse to moderately dense layer of multiangular stellate hairs and a dense layer of smaller planar stellate hairs; juvenile leaves to 48 mm long and 10 mm wide. Peduncle to 0.5 mm long; pedicel 1–6 mm long. Sepals ovate-deltate, 2–4 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, acute. Petals 5–7.5 mm long (–10 mm when in fruit), 3–4 mm wide (–6 mm when in fruit), pink to white; abaxial surface with sparse to moderately dense simple indumentum. Anther apiculum large, reflexed. Style glabrous. Cocci glabrous or very rarely densely hairy.