Shrub; stems with youngest parts densely covered with white hairs becoming more scattered later and with dense pale glands; older stems very pale brown, 4-ribbed, ± glabrous.. Leaves aromatic, opposite; blades elliptic to lanceolate, 1.5–5 cm. long, 1–1.7 cm. wide, obtuse at apex or subacute and mucronulate, very narrowly cuneate at the base, densely glandular and with sparse white hairs, almost lobulate-crenate, the lobules 2.5–3 mm. long; petiole ± obsolete or 2–4 mm. long.. Heads small, 1–3 per node, globose, at first 4–5 mm. long, later up to 10 × 6 mm., the fruiting axis usually 1 cm. long; peduncle 2.5–6 cm. long, glabrous; bracts rounded-elliptic, 1.5–2 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, densely adpressed pubescent.. Calyx globose, bilobed; lobes rounded, 1.5 mm. long, densely pubescent and glandular.. Corolla white; tube 1.5 mm. long, minutely furfuraceous; lobes round, 0.5 mm. diameter.. Fruit compressed-globose, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, glabrous, splitting into 2 mericarps.
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A shrub. Young stems are hairy. The leaves are opposite and sword shaped. They are 1.5-5 cm long by 1-1.7 cm wide. The flower heads are small and round. The flowers are white. The fruit are a flattened round shape. They are 1.5-2.5 mm long.
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