Shrub 0.3–1.2 m high. Leaves shortly petiolate, narrowly obovate to narrowly ovate, discolorous; lamina 4–34 mm long, 1–7 mm wide. Involucral bracts 4 or rarely 6, ovate to broadly ovate, 13–21 mm long, 7–14 mm wide, usually partially hairy inside, rarely ciliate. Flowers bisexual or rarely female, glabrous inside except for ring of long hairs at throat, white to pale yellow. Hypanthium 8–14 mm long; style-portion 6–11 mm long, with long spreading hairs but no small hairs in lower half and shorter antrorse hairs above. Sepals 3–5.5 mm long. Stamens greatly exceeding sepals; filament 5–7 mm long; anther locules semi-latrorse to latrorse.
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