Shrub up to 1.5 m. tall with slender branches, often ending in a mass of thin tangled twigs.. Twigs densely farinaceous with small white mostly sessile scales, less conspicuous on the older branchlets.. Leaf-blade elliptic-oblong, 6–14 mm. long, 4–6 mm. wide, rounded or emarginate at the apex, minutely apiculate, farinaceous; petiole up to 1.5 mm. long.. Inflorescence a few-flowered shortly subcorymbose raceme; pedicels 4–8 mm. long.. Sepals subequal, obovate-spathulate, 3–3.5 mm. long, concave, apiculate, densely farinaceous.. Petals 0.. Androphore 2–4 mm. long; appendage subequal, spreading, tubular, not petaloid; stamens 5; filaments 2–2.5 mm. long, glabrous or with a few scattered scales; anthers 2.5–2.8 mm. long, apiculate.. Gynophore and ovary farinaceous.. Fruits unknown.
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