Woody, straggling shrub to 2 m high, with densely rusty-pubescent young stems. Leaves: lamina broadly obovate, (6–) 8–12 (–15) mm long, 4–8 mm wide, cuneate base, obtuse to acute, reccurved-apiculate at apex, flat or folded, greyish-velvety above with short erect simple hairs, densely greyish-or rusty-villous or pubescent beneath; petiole 1–5 mm long; stipules broadly triangular, 1–3 mm long, free or shortly connate. Inflorescences to 1 cm wide, with 10–50 flowers. Flowers densely white-woolly. Hypanthium tube 0.6–0.8 mm long, 0.8–1.5 mm diam. Sepals 0.9–1.2 mm long. Petals 0.6–0.7 mm long, distinctly clawed. Disc inconspicuous. Ovary roof stellate-hairy; style 0.8–1.1 mm long. Fruit 2.5–3 mm long. Seed 1.5–1.7 mm long.
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