Erect shrub to 3 m, greyish. Branches granular-tomentose or pubescent with mainly dendritic, non-glandular hairs and scattered glandular hairs. Leaves elliptic to ovate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic, almost sessile, 5–25 mm long, 1.5–7 mm wide, tomentose; juvenile leaves to 13 cm long, 4 cm wide. Inflorescence panicle-like, dense, leafy; pedicels 1–6 mm long. Calyx 2–5.5 mm long, sparsely to densely pubescent. Corolla 6–22 mm long, glabrous or pubescent, white, cream or pale yellow, the striations purple; lobes ovate-truncate to almost linear, 3–15 mm long. Stamens 2–5 mm long. Capsule globose to broadly ellipsoid, 2.5–8 mm long. Seeds 2.3–3.8 mm long.