Dense shrub to 2.5 m high. Branchlets strongly ridged by decurrent leaf bases when young, stellate-puberulous. Leaves with petiole 1.5–3 mm long, oblong-elliptic, (8–) 12–21 (–30) mm long, 1.3–2.5 mm wide, entire, revolute, acute to obtuse or shortly apiculate; adaxial surface minutely scabridulous and somewhat tuberculate, glabrous or glabrescent; abaxial surface smooth, white stellate-puberulous. Inflorescence compact, axillary, (1 or) 3-flowered, on distal 5–15 cm of branches; peduncle 0–1 mm long, glabrous; pedicels 1–2 mm long with 1 or 2 bracteoles c. 0.5 mm long in lower half. Calyx 1–1.5 mm long, glabrous; lobes deltate, 0.5–0.7 mm long. Petals spreading, narrowly elliptic, 4.5–5 mm long, pale yellow, glabrous. Gynophore not apparent. Carpels 5, ending in a linear rostrum 1.5–2 mm long; ovary glabrous or sparsely pilose, rarely villous. Cocci erect, ellipsoid, with narrow rostrum 3–4 mm long.
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