Erect shrub to 4 m, grey-green. Branches densely to moderately granular-tomentose with stellate-dendritic, non-glandular hairs and scattered glandular hairs. Leaves elliptic, almost sessile, 15–30 mm long, 4–9 mm wide, sometimes larger, tomentose. Inflorescence panicle-like, dense, leafy; pedicels 2–9 mm long. Calyx 3.5–7 mm long, tomentose. Corolla 10–15 mm long, pubescent, creamy-white, the striations purplish; lobes ovate-truncate, 5–9 mm long. Stamens 2–4 mm long. Capsule more or less globose, 4–5 mm diam. Seeds 2.5–3.5 mm long.