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Leaves predominantly paired, or in whorls of 3 at a few nodes bearing 3 side branches; blades 1.7–8(10) × 0.5–4.4(5.8) cm, narrowly to broadly elliptic or obovate, or lanceolate, narrowed to a rounded or subacute apex, rarely shortly acuminate, cuneate at the base, mostly very discolorous, densely covered with yellowish-grey, curled, short hairs above which do not obscure the surface, ultimately sometimes becoming ± glabrous, white or yellowish-grey velvety tomentose beneath, the surface entirely obscured save in old leaves; venation impressed and ± bullate above and raised and reticulate beneath in mature leaves; petiole 2–3(6) mm long; stipules with triangular base, 1–2 mm long, and subulate appendage, 2.5–3(6) mm long, at first tomentose but becoming glabrous.
An erect shrub. It grows 1.2 m tall. It has a thick woody rootstock. The stems can be single or divided into 2 or 3. The branches are 3-4 angled. The young shoots are slender with a yellow coating that gets removed. The leaves are in pairs or rings of 3. The leaves are 2-8 cm long by 1-4 cm wide. They are narrowly oval and have short yellow hairs. The fruit are round and 8-12 mm across.
Corolla with 5 short but distinct appendages in bud; green or yellow, densely tomentose with appressed hairs; tube 3–5 mm long, densely tomentose outside, shortly hairy at the throat; lobes 4–5 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, linear-triangular, apiculate, with similar indumentum to tube outside.
Inflorescences dense and subsessile, the axillary pairs forming dense nodal clusters; peduncles 0–2.5 mm long, rarely to 15 mm in fruit; pedicels 1–1.5(5) mm long, all densely tomentose; bracts and bracteoles c. 1 mm long, ovate or narrowly lanceolate, scarious, turning dark brown.
Erect suffrutex, 0.5–1.2(1.8) m tall, from a thick horizontal or vertical woody rootstock; stems usually single, or 2–3, much branched often 3–4-angled; shoots slender, velvety yellowish-tomentose above but soon glabrescent and ultimately dull purplish and glabrous.
Fruits globose, 7.5–12(15) mm in diameter, crowned by a tomentose calyx limb, shiny, glabrescent or glabrous, with (1)3–5 pyrenes.
Calyx tube 1–1.5 mm long, the teeth short, 0.5–1 mm long, ± triangular, ± scarious, brown, ± glabrous or pubescent.
Pollen presenter pale green, 0.75–1.5 mm long, subcylindrical, 3–5-lobed at apex.
Anthers exserted, 1.5–2 mm long.
Style 6–6.5 mm long.
