Subshrub to about 30 cm. tall with stems arising from a woody base; young stems and leaves with silky silvery-grey indumentum.. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade elliptic, rather rigid, 4–14(–27) mm. long, 2–6(–18) mm. wide, ± rounded above and below, often somewhat mucronulate.. Flowers solitary, subsessile in the leaf-axils or aggregated at the ends of the branchlets; bracts small.. Sepals unequal, ovate, acute or acuminate, 4–5 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide, silvery pubescent.. Corolla 4–5 mm. long and wide.. Ovary obovoid, apically hirsute.. Capsule ovoid, 2–3 mm. tall.. Seeds ovoid, 1.5–2 mm. long, blackish, glabrous.
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