Erect shrubs 1-2 m tall. Hairs greyish, patent. Young branchlets moderately hairy. Leaves opposite-decussate, broadly cordate, 7-12 mm long, 6-13 mm wide, flat or slightly concave, not incurved, mostly spreading, straight, not twisted, innocuous, not glaucous, sparsely hairy when immature, glabrescent, scaberulous. Inflorescence auxotelic, 2-8-flowered; rachis 0-25 mm long. Pedicels 3-5 mm long, spreading, sparsely hairy. Tepals c. 11 mm long, acute, sparsely hairy. Anther appendage obtuse, 1.5-2 mm long.