Low compact shrub. Branchlets lepidote. Leaves shortly petiolate, broadly elliptic, 9–11 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, obtuse, coriaceous, smooth, glabrous and glossy adaxially, silvery-lepidote abaxially. Flowers 1 (–3) in congested cymes; peduncle and pedicel thick, flattened, together 2–4 mm long; bracts oblong-ovate, 1–1.5 mm long; bracteoles grading into sepals; flower base continuous with pedicel. Sepals suberect, deltate, 2 mm long, glabrous (or 1 sepal lepidote). Petals elliptic, c. 4 mm long, white (pink in bud), glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Ovary silvery-lepidote; style glabrous. Cocci c. 2.5 mm high, rounded at apex and outwardly shortly apiculate.
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