Erect shrub to 10 cm high, with very sparse minute simple or bi-fid hairs on young stems; lignotuber c. 5 cm below ground. Leaves: lamina narrowly ovate-oblong to linear, 3–6 mm long, 0.3–1 mm wide, base cuneate, strongly recurved margins, only midrib visible, apex obtuse to acute with mucronate tip, green and glabrous above, long simple-pubescent below; petiole 0.5–1.8 mm long; stipules triangular, 0.9–1.3 mm long, connate. Inflorescences up to 4 mm wide with 1–3 flowers. Flowers: base with a dense indumentum of simple and stellate hairs. Hypanthium tube 0.3–0.5 mm long, c. 1.4 mm diam. Sepals 0.9–1.2 mm long, glabrous, except a few hairs on tip. Petals 0.7–0.9 mm long, clawed. Stamens 0.5–0.6 mm long. Disc lining the base of the floral tube, ovary and extending into a ring around the style. Ovary mostly covered by disc, glabrous; style 0.3–0.8 mm long, distinctly thickened in lower half. Fruit c. 2.5–3 mm long. Mature seed not seen.
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