Small shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets terete to angular. Leaves shortly petiolate, linear to narrowly or broadly obcordate or suborbicular, 7–35 mm long, entire, chartaceous to coriaceous, smooth, becoming glabrous. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel angular, 3–10 mm long, silvery-lepidote, minutely 2 (or 4)-bracteolate. Calyx patelliform, 0.7–1.5 mm high, undulate or with short triangular lobes, silvery-lepidote abaxially. Petals elliptic, 4.5–6.5 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide, white, silvery-lepidote abaxially. Stamens slightly shorter than petals; filaments oblong-attenuate; anthers spherical, c. 0.7 mm long. Disc equal in width to and ±continuous with ovary. Ovary broadly ovoid, 2 mm high, glabrous or silvery-lepidote; style 0.5–1 mm long, glabrous; stigma ±equal in width to style. Cocci erect, c. 5 mm high, almost smooth; apex rounded, shortly apiculate or bluntly rostrate.
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