Suffrutex with apparently short-lived semi-herbaceous shoots to 30 cm, but usually much less, and a woody stock to 8 mm diam. Aerial shoots unbranched or sparsely branched, 2–3 mm diam., leafy throughout. Indumentum of simple and stellate hairs. Leaves simple, 3.5–8 by 1–4 cm, ovate or obovate, finely simply hairy especially on abaxial venation; apex acute or obtuse; base cuneate to decurrent; margin dentate or sinuately lobed, predominantly in more distal half; veins about 4 or 5 on each side, ascending, culminating in tips of major lobes; petiole 5–20 mm, pubescent. Flowers solitary or, more usually, in few-flowered thyrses up to 18 mm long, axillary to somewhat supra-axillary, squarrose, pubescent; bracts c. 4 mm long, subulate, pubescent; bracteoles c. 1 mm long, long-triangular, pubescent. Pseudopedicels 6–9 mm long, pubescent. Calyx lobes 5–7 mm long, subulate, shortly hairy. Petals 2.75–4 cm long, 3–4 mm wide, linear-spatulate, white, cohering at base, apex acute. Staminal tube narrowly conical, white, with the filaments reflexed and curved outward at tips to form a subapical ruff; anthers at resultant apex, orange. Disk absent. Ovary subglabrous; stylehead 5-lobed, orange-yellow. Fruit c. 1 cm, depressed globose, lobed, subglabrous.
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