Shrub 15–60 cm high. Stems glabrous. Leaves opposite, sessile or subsessile, narrowly elliptic to circular, glabrous, concolorous, medium green or bluish green; lamina 2–16 mm long, 1.5–9 mm wide. Inflorescence pendulous, compact, many-flowered; involucral bracts in 3 or more pairs, narrowly elliptic or circular, 4–15 mm long, 3–10 mm wide, glabrous or nearly so outside, usually hairy inside, leaf-like in colour or more yellowish; innermost bracts ciliate. Flowers bisexual or rarely female, hairy outside, glabrous inside, yellow. Hypanthium 6.5–17 mm long, circumscissile; style-portion 4–14 mm long. Sepals 2–5 mm long. Stamens shorter or longer than sepals; anther locules semi-latrorse. Ovary distally hairy.