A much branched shrub, about 50 cm high, with ascending, wiry branches. Branchlets slender, minutely tomentose and shortly villous. Leaves closely set, 0.7-1.4 cm long: lamina erect-spreading or spreading, somewhat incurved, linear or lanceolate-linear, apiculate, rounded at base, with revolute margins covering most of the lower surface; upper surface minutely scabrid, at first covered with adpressed, grey pubescence, at length glabrous: petiole 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence a capituliform raceme, 0.5-1 cm long. Flowers about 3.5 mm long, uniformly covered outside with white tomentum and shaggy hair, on tomentose pedicels about 2 mm long, in the axils of reduced leaves. Bracteoles absent. Calyx-tube 0.5 mm deep, broadly cyathiform, lined up to the sinuses with a conspicuous disc. Sepals 1-1.25 mm long, deltoid-ovate, acute, keeled down the upper half of the inner surface. Petals inserted at the mouth of the tube, 0.75 mm long: lamina rotundate, deeply concave, cucullate: claw half as long, cuneate-oblong. Anthers cordate, 1-celled. Ovary obconic. Style 0.5-0.75 mm long, columnar. Stigma narrower, shortly 3-lobed.
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