A widely diffuse or decumbent shrublet, the stems up to 40 cm long, densely and shortly glandular-scabrid; flowering branchlets with a few admixed stellate hairs. Leaves oblong or oblong-elliptical, rarely obovate, obtuse, irregularly crenate-lobulate, scarcely lacerate, mostly 2-5 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm broad, with rather sparse stellate hairs on both faces; petioles glandular-scabrid, 2-8 mm long. Stipules free, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, entire, 3-7 mm long. Flowers rather numerous, pale cream-coloured or more rarely dull pink, very sweet-scented. Peduncles 2-flowered, as long as or longer than the leaves, like the pedicels glandular-pubescent with admixed stellate hairs; bracts connate in a laxly sheathing involucre about 4-5 mm long, with 2 short ovate-deltoid teeth at the apex. Calyx widely campanulate, 5-5.5 mm long, stellate-pilose, the teeth ovate-deltoid, attenuate, ciliate, about 2.5 mm long. Corolla campanulate; petals 8-9 mm long, the limb almost orbicular, stellate-pilose near the base inside, 2 ½ times as long as the concave claw. Stamens 6 mm long; filaments cruciform 2 mm above the base, 1.2 mm broad across the lobes; lobes greenish, densely stellate-pilose. Ovary subglobose, about 2.5 mm long, densely and minutely stellate-pilose; style 4.5-5 mm long, pubescent near the base.
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