Dense shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets angular, coppery-lepidote, glandular-verrucose. Leaves shortly petiolate, broadly obcordate, 3–12 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, coriaceous, glabrous and smooth adaxially when fresh, wrinkled when dry, lepidote abaxially. Flowers 1–3, in cymes 2–7 mm long; peduncle and pedicels angular to flattened, lepidote with coppery scales; bracteoles 0–2, narrowly triangular, c. 0.5 mm long, concave. Sepals deltate, 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous or with a few scales towards base. Petals elliptic, c. 4 mm long, white, glabrous. Stamens glabrous. Ovary hemispherical, glabrous. Cocci quadrate, c. 3 mm high, very shortly apiculate on outer angle.
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