Shrub to 2 m high; branchlets stellate-lepidote. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic to broadly elliptic, from 15 mm long and 2–11 mm wide to 60 mm long and 9 mm wide, entire, obtuse to rounded, chartaceous; adaxial surface flat, smooth, glabrous, with midrib impressed; abaxial surface smooth with prominent midrib, silvery-lepidote. Umbels 4–10-flowered. Pedicels 4–15 mm long. Calyx turbinate, c. 3 mm long including the narrowly deltate teeth c. 1.5 mm long, silvery-to silvery-and ferruginous-lepidote on both sides. Petals obovate, to 6 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, white adaxially (to pink in inland form), ferruginous-lepidote abaxially. Fruit not seen.