Shrub 20–30 cm or more high. Stems hairy at least sparsely near inflorescence. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic or linear, glabrous or ciliate when young, medium or darker green; lamina 5–16 mm long, 1–3 mm wide. Inflorescence erect, compact, many-flowered; involucral bracts 9–15, narrowly ovate, 7–15 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely hairy outside, often hairy inside, prominently ciliate, green. Flowers bisexual, densely covered outside by a mixture of long spreading hairs and minute hairs, white. Hypanthium c. 10 mm long, circumscissile or possibly persistent; style-portion c. 7 mm long, hairy inside. Sepals c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous inside. Stamens usually shorter than sepals; anther locules semi-latrorse. Ovary distally hairy.
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