Small, much-branched, often spinescent shrub to 20 cm high, with sparse, greyish, simple and/or stellate hairs on young stems and leaf undersurfaces. Leaves: lamina flabellate to narrowly obovate, 3–8 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, cuneate base, recurved or revolute margin, tridentate apex, smooth and glabrous above; petiole 0.3–1 mm long; stipules broadly triangular to rectangular, 0.8–1.2 mm long, connate. Inflorescences apparently lateral, to 0.5 cm wide, with 1–3 flowers. Flowers moderately to densely pubescent with greyish simple and/or stellate hairs. Hypanthium tube 0.1–0.2 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm diam. Sepals 0.7–1 mm long. Petals 0.5–0.6 mm long, indistinctly clawed. Disc inconspicuous. Ovary stellate-hairy; style 0.4–0.5 mm long. Fruit c. 2 mm long. Seed 1.2–1.3 mm long.
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