Shrubs, cespitose, densely matted, 0.1–10 dm. Stems 1+, prostrate, decumbent, erect, or ascending; bark brown to dark brown, aging to gray; short and long shoots present; short shoots glabrous. Leaves persistent, marcescent, cauline (tightly clustered), alternate, simple; petiole absent; blade oblanceolate to narrowly obtrullate, 0.2–2.5(–3) cm, coriaceous, margins flat, entire, venation indistinct, masked by hairs, or palmately 1–3-veined, surfaces glabrate, strigose, canescent, pilose, or sericeous. Inflorescences terminal, 10–100-flowered, panicles narrow or widely branched, flowers aggregated, dense, compact, puberulent, canescent to sericeous; bracts present, sometimes absent; bracteoles present. Pedicels present. Flowers 2–6 mm diam.; epicalyx bractlets 0; hypanthium hemispheric, turbinate, 0.5–1 mm, canescent, pilose, or sericeous, ?sometimes glandular?; sepals 5, erect or reflexed, ovate to lanceolate; petals 5, persistent, withering, white, oval to oblong, obovate, or oblanceolate; stamens 20–40, equal to or longer than petals; torus thickened basally, ?margins crenulate or entire?; carpels (3–)5(–6)[–7], abaxially or adaxially connate or free, hirsute to pilose adaxially, styles terminal, ?stigmas minute?; ovules 2 or 3[or 4]. Fruits aggregated follicles, (3–)5(–6), lanceoloid, 1.5–2 mm, ?coriaceous?, glabrous, glabrate, or sparsely pilose, dehiscent along abaxial and adaxial sutures; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, erect to reflexed; styles deciduous or persistent. Seeds 1 or 2, fusiform to terete. x = 9.
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