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About 40 cm high, much branched. Branchlets slender, pubescent. Leaves mostly 4-6 mm long, erect-spreading, ovate-oblong or oblong, very obtuse, apiculate, bluntly keeled beneath, slightly concave above, scabridous on the margins, glabrous. Bracteoles 4, opposite, about 1-75 mm long, ovate or rotund, obtuse, shortly apiculate, convex and very slightly keeled on the back, ciliate. Petals 2-75 mm long, ascending, obovate, obtuse, slightly keeled on the back, bicarinate on the lower half of the inner face. Stamens reaching to well above the middle of the petals: filaments stout, slightly compressed: anthers 1 mm long. Ovary 2/3 inferior: styles furrowed on the inner face.
Densely leafy, coppicing shrublet to 50 cm. Leaves oblong-elliptic, mostly 5-10 mm long. Flowers axillary, in subterminal whorls, cupulate, cream-coloured, 3-5 mm long.
