Small shrubs, 60-90 cm tall, presumably evergreen; branches weakly flattened to terete, puberulent to villosulous or hirtellous in interpetiolar lines to sometimes uniformly puberulent throughout. Leaves subsessile or with petiole to 2 mm, glabrous or puberulent to villosulous; blade drying leathery to stiffly papery, ovate to oblanceolate, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, or lanceolate, 0.6-2.2 × 0.3-0.6 cm, both surfaces glabrous to hispidulous or villosulous on principal veins to throughout, often shiny adaxially, base obtuse to acute, apex acute to obtuse or acuminate; secondary veins 2-4 pairs; stipules 0.5-2 mm, puberulent to villosulous, truncate to triangular, with bristles 0.5-4 mm. Flowers solitary to several; bracts narrowly triangular to spatulate, 1-6 mm, glabrous to villosulous, acute, margins entire to ciliate or hispidulous. Calyx glabrous to puberulent or hirtellous; ovary portion obconic, 1-1.5 mm; limb lobed essentially to base; lobes narrowly triangular to lanceolate or linear, 1-5 mm, entire to ciliolate or hispid. Corolla outside glabrous to puberulent or villosulous; tube 4-8 mm; lobes narrowly triangular to ovate, 2-2.5 mm. Drupes 2-3 mm; pyrenes 2-2.5 mm. Fl. Apr-Oct, fr. Jun-Nov.
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A small shrub. It grows 60-90 cm tall. The branches are weakly flattened. The leaves do not have leaf stalks. They are sword shaped and 1-2 cm long by 1 cm wide. The flowers can occur singly or in a group. The fruit are 2-3 mm across.
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