Erect or ascending perennial herb or subshrub 18–35 cm tall. Stems weakly 4-or 5-ribbed, hirsute. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear-lanceolate to ovate, entire or toothed in distal half, densely pilose; lamina 1.8–3 cm long; margins revolute. Bracts leaflike, 2–3 mm long, pilose; bracteoles lanceolate, c. 0.8–1 mm long, entire, brown. Flowers 4-merous; pedicel 0.3–0.4 mm long. Sepals deltoid, 0.6–0.8 mm long, green; margins thickened; basal callus. Petals 2.1–2.7 mm long, reddish brown. Stamens 8; anthers 2–2.3 mm long. Ovary weakly 8-ribbed with 3 or 4 irregular transverse rows of tubercles, or almost smooth, white to slate-grey or brown. Fruit globose to ovoid, 1.2–1.5 mm long, pilose.
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