Erect or rarely decumbent shrub 0.6-2.5 (-6) m high. Branchlets subsericeous to pubescent. Leaves ascending, usually entire, obovate to narrowly so, 1.5-6 cm long, (1.5-) 2.5-8 (-15) mm wide, often apically emarginate or rarely bilobed; margins recurved to shortly revolute; lower surface mostly exposed, subsericeous. Unit conflorescence erect, regular, ovoid to umbelloid, acropetal; floral rachis 1-4 (-8) mm long tomentose. Flowers adaxially oriented; pedicels sericeous. Flower colour: perianth and style white, sometimes tinged pink. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside, papillose inside near base. Pistil 4-7 mm long, usually glabrous, sometimes a few appressed hairs on ovary; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle ovoid, 6-10 mm long, glabrous, rugose.