Dense conical shrub, to 7 m high. Branches and branchlets horizontal; branchlets angled, lepidote. Leaves horizontally spreading; petiole 2–5 mm long; lamina ovate, 8–23 mm long, 6–15 mm wide, obtuse or emarginate, chartaceous, glabrous, glossy and smooth adaxially when fresh, silvery-lepidote and smooth abaxially. Flowers solitary or in 2-or 3-flowered cymes; peduncle and pedicels decurved, together 6–12 mm long; bracts 2–5 mm long, incurved, lepidote below; bracteoles below calyx, minute, caducous. Sepals triangular, 1–2 mm long, silvery-lepidote but glabrous with age. Petals elliptic, 4–6 mm long, white, glabrous. Staminal filaments stellate-hairy near base. Ovary densely stellate-hairy; style glabrous. Cocci obliquely obovoid, c. 4 mm long, bluntly apiculate at outer angle.
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