Bushy shrub to 1.5 m high. Branches terete, lepidote, glandular-verrucose. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 20–35 mm long, 8–15 mm wide, obtuse to emarginate, chartaceous, glabrous adaxially, closely silvery-lepidote abaxially. Flowers 2–5, in short cymes c. 5 mm long; peduncle and pedicels thick and lepidote, with pedicel passing into floral base; bracts subfoliaceous, reduced in size towards apex of branch, caducous; bracteoles minute and linear, in middle of short (c. 2 mm long) pedicel, caducous. Sepals deltate, c. 1 mm long, glabrous or almost so. Petals elliptic, c. 5 mm long, white, glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Ovary silvery-lepidote; style glabrous. Cocci quadrate, c. 3 mm high, very shortly apiculate.
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