Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets ±terete or slightly angular, shortly pilose between ribs, verrucose. Leaves ±spreading, oblong to oblong-elliptic, 5–10 mm long, 1.5–2.5 mm wide, entire, with margin slightly recurved, obtuse to rounded at apex, leathery, ±glabrous. Flowers solitary in uppermost axils; pedicel c. 5 mm long, ±glabrous; bracteoles filamentous, c. 0.5 mm long, caducous. Calyx lobes deltate, c. 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Petals spreading, oblong, c. 5 mm long, acute, white. Stamens ±equal to petals. Gynophore shortly cylindrical, c. 0.5 mm high. Carpels 5; ovary cylindrical, c. 1.5 mm high, glabrous. Cocci c. 4 mm long, shortly rostrate.