Dense shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets terete, smooth, minutely stellate with glabrous decurrent leaf bases. Leaves shortly petiolate, somewhat imbricate, broadly obovate to orbicular, 6–10 mm long, 6 mm wide, flat, leathery, entire or minutely erose towards rounded apex, smooth, glabrous. Flowers in a terminal compact, globular cluster; pedicels fleshy towards summit, c. 1.5 mm long. Calyx lobes broadly deltate, c. 0.5 mm high, glabrous. Petals spreading, narrowly elliptic, 5 mm long, white to yellow, glabrous. Stamens shortly exceeding petals. Gynophore absent. Carpels 5; ovary cylindrical, c. 2 mm high, glabrous. Cocci 4–6 mm long, shortly rostrate.
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