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Leaves alternate, subsessile or with glabrous petiole 0.5–1.5 mm long; lamina (7)10–15(24) × (1)2–4(6) mm, narrowly elliptic, narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, attenuated to obtuse at the base, acute to obtuse at the apex, chartaceous, glaucous green, glabrous; midrib and 3 or 4 lateral nerves distinct on the lower surface.
Calyx tube 5–7(10) mm long, densely but shortly silky hairy above the articulation, glabrous or shortly hairy below, especially in the upper part; lobes 1–2 × 0.8–1.2 mm, ovate, rounded at the apex, sparingly pubescent outside.
Bracts (4)5–6(7), 6–10 × 2.5–5.5 mm, ovate to narrowly ovate, acute to acuminate, membranous, slightly sericeous inside, glabrous beneath, green, sometimes with crimson or reddish-brown margins, deciduous in fruit.
Flowers 4-merous, whitish or yellow; pedicels 1–2 mm long, pubescent with a brush of hairs, 3–4 mm long.
Inflorescence a terminal or axillary bracteate head, 30–80-flowered or even more; peduncle glabrous.
Petals 0.2–0.3 mm long, filaments with a small head or granular top, sometimes rudimentary.
Branched, often single-stemmed, wiry, delicate shrublet or shrub, 0.5–1.5 m high.
Branches slender, sometimes nodding, glabrous, with brown or red bark.
Ovary 1 mm long, glabrous; style 1.5–3.3 mm long; stigma papillate.
Stamens subsessile; anthers 0.5–0.7 mm long.
Seed c. 2 × 1 mm.
