Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets angular when young, shortly hirsute. Leaves subterete due to the strongly revolute margins (rarely narrowly ovate), 4–18 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, obtuse, glabrous or shortly hirsute adaxially, pilose abaxially. Inflorescence a compact terminal head, with several flowers in axils of linear bracts; pedicels 1–2 mm long, fleshy, shortly pilose. Calyx turbinate, pilose, passing into pedicel; lobes linear-lanceolate, c. 2 mm long. Petals spreading, narrowly obovate, 4–7 mm long, creamy-yellow, sparsely pilose or glabrous. Stamens shortly exceeding petals. Gynophore absent. Carpels 5, subterete, (2–) 2.5–3.7 mm long, the upper 3/4 sterile; ovary shortly pilose. Cocci with an erect subulate rostrum 4–5.5 mm long arising from outer angle.
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