Shrubs, ?deciduous; spines absent. Older branches brownish gray, glabrous; young branches reddish brown. Petiole 2.5-3 mm, silvery; leaf blade ovate or suborbicular, 2-2.5 × 1.3-1.5 cm, thinly leathery, abaxially silvery with scattered reddish scales, adaxially drying green, with scattered silvery scales, margin undulate. Flowers solitary, erect, or 1-3 on very short shoots. Perianth silvery white; tube very short, obscurely 4-angled, ca. 2.5 mm; lobes triangular, ca. 2.5 mm, interior sparsely stellate pilose. Filaments almost absent. Style incurved at apex, hardly as long as anthers, sparsely pubescent. Fruit not seen.