Erect to spreading shrubs 20-60 cm tall. Hairs glandular and non-glandular, mostly greyish to whitish, antrorsely spreading to patent. Young branchlets moderately to densely hairy. Leaves mostly spathulate to narrowly spathulate, 1.5-4 cm long, 5-10 mm wide, flat, suberect to erect, straight to slightly falcate, twisted through 0-90°, sharp but not pungent, not glaucous, moderately hairy when immature, glabrescent, scabrous. Inflorescence mostly auxotelic, 1-2-flowered; rachis 0-2 mm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves and leaves; pedicels 3.5-9 mm long, erect, moderately glandular-hairy; tepals 9-13 mm long, acute, moderately hairy on outside. Anther appendage obtuse, c. 2 mm long, recurved through 90-180°. Ovary glabrous.