Shrub, probably prostrate. Branchlets slender (1 mm), terete, densely subappressed-setulose. Leaves lanceolate, rarely subelliptic-lanceolate, slightly minor towards the tips of the branchlets and subsessile there, apex attenuate, subacute, base attenuate, subcoriaceous, dark brown above when dry, paler beneath, regularly serrulate, teeth caducously ciliate, 0.2-0.3 mm high, c. 1 mm spaced, 0.8-1.3 cm by (2-)3.5 mm, puberulous above on the lower part of the midrib, with solitary scattered short bristles beneath, midrib very slightly sunken above, ± prominent beneath, nerves 2 pairs, high-ascending, very slightly impressed above, +-raised beneath, reticulation +-obscure; petiole glabrous, c. 1 mm. Flowers solitary, remote i.e. not in successive axils. Pedicels recurved, glabrous, stoutish, c. 2 mm. Bract absent. Bracteoles 2, opposite, immediately below the calyx, ovate-acuminate, c. 2 mm. Calyx 2.5 mm, deeply 5-partite, glabrous outside, lobes ovate, abruptly acuminate, puberulous inside, ciliate at the tip. Ovary puberulous; style glabrous, 2 mm. Fruit calyx moderately accrescent, subcarnose at the: base, chartaceous at the tip, including the glabrous at capsule.
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