Slender shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets terete, slender, erect, densely silvery-lepidote. Leaves principally on short lateral branches, dense, narrowly obcuneate passing into a slender petiole, in all 1–2 cm long, revolute, divergently bilobed, coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely lepidote adaxially, sometimes scabrous, stellate-tomentose abaxially. Flowers axillary, solitary on dwarf branchlets 1–2 mm long subtended by 2 or 4 linear bracts. Calyx silvery-lepidote; tube hemispherical, c. 3 mm long; lobes triangular, 1–2 mm long. Corolla cylindrical; petals narrowly oblong-elliptic, c. 15 mm long, initially coalescing by their minutely woolly margins, glabrous and purple adaxially, greenish-lepidote abaxially, persistent. Stamens glabrous, ±equal to corolla; filaments linear; anthers narrowly cordate-ovate, c. 1 mm long. Disc narrow, crenate. Ovary oblong, rounded at apex, lepidote; style filamentous, glabrous, almost equal to stamens; stigma small, globular. Cocci narrow, c. 5 mm long, obtuse.
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