Shrub 15–60 cm high. Young stems hairy. Leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, elliptic or narrowly elliptic, densely hairy with the hairs of adaxial surface larger, concolorous, usually pale to medium grey-green or yellowish green; lamina 2–8 mm long, 0.8–3 mm wide. Inflorescence erect, compact, many-flowered; involucral bracts 8–18, narrowly ovate to almost linear, 4–10 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, densely hairy, leaf-like in colour. Flowers female or bisexual, densely hairy outside, white. Hypanthium 5–9.5 mm long; hairs long on ovary-portion but abruptly shorter above; style-portion 3–7 mm long, hairy inside. Sepals 1.5–3 mm long, glabrous inside. Stamens usually shorter than sepals; anther locules introrse or semi-latrorse. Ovary distally hairy.
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