Rounded, intricately branched shrub to 1.7 m. Branches spinescent, tomentose with non-glandular dendritic hairs, glabrescent. Leaves present only on immature parts, scattered, narrowly elliptic to linear, sessile, 3–10 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, tomentose, entire, the margins slightly recurved. Pedicels 1–3 mm long. Calyx 1.3–2 mm long, tomentose; lobes minute. Corolla 2.5–4 mm long, tomentose outside; lobes ovate to broadly ovate, 1.5–2.5 mm long. Stamens and style much exserted. Capsule ovoid, 4–4.5 mm long. Seeds 3.5–4 mm long.