Erect or sprawling, spinescent shrub to 2 m high; bark smooth, grey; new shoots and all plant parts with dense, persisting, appressed, white hairs. Remaining in a fairly intermediate developmental stage. Leaves clustered on short, spinescent shoots, mostly sessile, narrowly elliptic to obovate, c. 12 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; apex rounded with a prominent, almost aristate, reflexed mucro. Inflorescences protandrous, simple botrya on terminal branches, occasionally on short shoots. Flowers white, pedicellate; sepals distinctive, triangular, 3–3.5 mm long, densely hairy, spreading from the base, persisting; petals 6–8 mm long, cream, tinged pink in bud, spreading from the base; stamens with filaments much shorter than yellow anthers, dehiscence through slits at petal break; pistil bilocular, sometimes 3 or more, white, tomentose. Fruit a dehiscent capsule wider than long, ± obloid, 7–9 mm long, 8–10 mm diam., eventually woody and persisting. Seeds brown, 1–6 per loculus, 4 mm long, 2 mm wide, not winged.
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