A stiffly branched shrub 1.8–3 m. tall; bark on old shoots dark grey, often cracked and fissured to reveal a rusty undersurface; young shoots dark purplish, covered with short rusty hairs, thickened at the nodes; leafless older parts of side shoots often with approximate nodes.. Branches and leaves often in whorls of 3 on main shoots but leaves paired on side shoots; leaves born on abbreviated shoots or slender side shoots, those on the main stems having fallen off; blades oblong, narrowly ovate-elliptic, ovate or almost round and perhaps not fully developed at flowering time, 1.5–6 cm. long, 0.8–3.5 cm. wide, rounded to acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, ± velvety on both surfaces with yellowish hairs but with an overall greyish look to the foliage; petioles 2 mm. long; stipule-bases 1.5 mm. long, densely brown pilose within and very obvious on older shoots but appendage ± obsolete.. Cymes 1–3-flowered; peduncle ± suppressed or 2–3 mm. long and pedicels 5–6 mm. long, both pubescent; bracts scarcely 1 mm. long.. Calyx-tube 1.2–1.5 mm. long; limb ± 0.6 mm. long, truncate.. Buds clavate, obtuse, glabrous, limb-part about 1/2 the length of the tube.. Corolla yellowish white or greenish yellow; tube 5 mm. long, hairy inside just below the throat but rest glabrous, glabrous outside; lobes elliptic, 3 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, acute but not appendaged.. Ovary 3-locular.. Young fruits globose, 7 mm. diameter, the pedicels up to ± 1.3 cm. long.
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