Shrub or subshrub 0.4–1 m high, typically erect and ascending. Branchlets very densely covered with sessile to shortly stalked stellate hairs 0.3–0.8 mm diameter, indumentum white, silvery-white, grey or yellowish-white. Stipules persistent or abscising with age, filiform, filiform-linear or filiform-subulate, 2.5–8 mm long, 0.175–0.35 mm wide. Mature leaves simple and unlobed, petiolate; petiole 5–25 mm long, moderately to very densely covered with sessile or shortly stalked stellate hairs; lamina mostly ovate to lanceolate or oblong, occasionally broadly ovate, flat, to weakly concave sometimes weakly folded/ conduplicate, 10–50 mm long, 5–35 mm wide, base obtuse, truncate or very broadly cuneate, margin dentate to crenate, apex obtuse to broadly acute, adaxial surface whitish-silver to grey, becoming greyish green with age, abaxial surface paler (except in young leaves); abaxial main and lateral veins raised and obvious; stellate hairs on adaxial surface dense to very dense (rarely moderate), 0.2–0.8 mm in diam., sessile to shortly stalked, multiradiate with 7–20 (–30) rays; stellate hairs on abaxial surface dense to very dense, 0.25–0.75 mm diam., sessile to shortly stalked, multiradiate with 10–25 rays. Flowers solitary in leaf axils, occasionally cleistogamous; combined peduncle and pedicel 5–26 mm long, usually elongating in fruit, abscission line not obvious, usually 1–2 (–13) mm from base, indumentum like on young stems and petioles broadening distally and sometimes becoming obviously flattened, occasionally recurving in fruit. Epicalyx segments 5–10, linear or subulate, 7–16 mm long, one-half to the same length as the calyx at anthesis, fused basally for 1–4 mm (fused part of epicalyx sometimes hard to distinguish from the pedicel), straight in flower and becoming recurved (rarely incurved) in fruit, usually entire at the apex but rarely bifurcating, with moderate to dense stellate hairs abaxially on the lobes and usually very dense hairs on the fused portion. Calyx 9–18 mm long at anthesis, enlarging to 20 mm long in fruit; lobes narrowly triangular to triangular, 5–9 mm long at anthesis, enlarging to 12 mm long in fruit, abaxial indumentum of moderate to very dense stellate hairs, adaxial indumentum of appressed or ascending 1-and/or 2-armed hairs intermixed with stellate hairs particularly distally, obscurely 1-veined under hairs. Petals 17–35 mm long, adnate to staminal column at base but otherwise free, pale pink or mauve (rarely white), lacking basal spot, glabrous adaxially, with sparse to moderate stellate hairs abaxially towards the margin and apex on one side, sometimes spreading towards the petal base. Staminal column 10–18 mm long, apex irregularly 5-lobed, with the stamens usually distributed singly along the distal c. 7 mm of the column, but sometimes distributed along almost the full length of the column; staminal filaments 1–5 mm long; anthers yellow. Style 5-branched, with branches 1.75–4 mm long, exerted 2–9 mm beyond the apex of the staminal column. Stigmas capitate, 0.5–0.6 mm wide, distinctly hairy, hairs 0.25–0.6 mm long. Ovary 5-locular, hairy, hairs 0.5–1 mm long. Cleistogamous flowers with a cap 3–4 mm long, with simple and stellate hairs on the upper c. 1.5 mm segment, the hairs very dense. Capsule ovoid to globose, 5–12 mm long, usually beaked, beak 1–2 mm long, densely covered with shiny simple appressed hairs, the apical ones erect, 0.5–0.75 mm long and extending beyond apex of capsule. Seeds reniform (rarely subangular reniform), 2–3 mm long, dark brown, with a sparse to moderate indumentum of wispy spreading white simple hairs 0.2–0.4 mm long; funicular remnants brown, membranous and wing-like, on either side of the hilum.
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