Erect pyramidal shrub to 1.3 m high. Branchlets terete, glandular-verrucose. Leaves clustered on short branchlets, turnip-shaped, c. 3 mm long, smooth, silvery-lepidote except for the truncate apex. Flowers solitary, terminal to short branchlets, sessile, subtended by 2 lepidote linear bracteoles c. 1 mm long. Calyx broadly turbinate, 1.5–3 mm high including the deltate-acuminate teeth c. 1/2 its length, closely silvery-lepidote. Petals obovate to broadly elliptic, 4–5.2 mm long, 2.5–3.7 mm wide, white, silvery abaxially. Cocci erect, 2.5–3 mm high; apex rounded.
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