Shrub from ±prostrate to l m high. Stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, usually narrowly elliptic, glabrous, usually bluish green; lamina 3–20 mm long, 1–7 mm wide. Inflorescence usually erect, compact, 7–many-flowered; involucral bracts 4, ±ovate, 6–16 mm long, 2.5–8 mm wide, glabrous outside, leaf-like in colour; inner bracts hairy inside, ciliate. Flowers bisexual, glabrous inside, white or creamy white. Hypanthium 8.5–14 mm long, circumscissile; ovary-portion glabrous; style-portion 6–10 mm long, with short hairs outside. Sepals 2–3.5 mm long. Stamens shorter than sepals; anther locules latrorse. Ovary glabrous or distally hairy.