Erect to decumbent shrubs 0.5-2 m tall. Hairs tawny to ferruginous, appressed to antrorsely spreading. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves opposite-decussate or sometimes alternate, ovate to elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 3-9 cm long, 13-30 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins, sometimes slightly incurved, spreading, straight, innocuous, not glaucous, sparsely to moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent to sparsely hairy when mature, smooth. Inflorescence anauxotelic. Flowers subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 1-2 mm long, erect, densely hairy; tepals 12-14 mm long, apiculate, densely hairy on outside. Ovary glabrous.