Young parts with a greyish, very short indument, glabrescent; twigs terete, straight, internodes c. 1.5 cm; thorns hardly or not developed. Mature leaves firmly herbaceous, glabrous, oblong to slightly obovate, c. 5-6 by 2½(-3) cm, base rounded, top acuminate, tip 4-7 mm long, acute; midrib above sulcate in the basal half, otherwise flat; nerves 5-7 pairs, thinly prominent on both sides, reticulation distinct; petiole c. 1 cm long, hairy as the twig. Subumbels c. 15-flowered, in the axils of the higher leaves and some terminal, c. 1.5-2.5 cm peduncled. Pedicels c. 8-15 mm, on small distinct cushions; bracts subulate, few mm long, very soon caducous. Buds globular, c. 3 mm diam. Outer pair of sepals c. 3 mm diam., outside densely greyish puberulous, the inner ones smaller and flattish and hairy only in the centre. Petals c. 4 by 2 mm, glabrous, white. Stamens c. 20-30, c. 1 mm long. Gynophore 20-25 mm, glabrous; ovary spindle-shaped, subovoid, 1½ mm long, glabrous with a knob-shaped stigma. Fruit unknown.
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