Undershrub to 25 cm, moderately to sparsely pubescent mainly with glandular, simple and little-branched hairs; non-glandular hairs present on pedicels, calyx and corolla. Leaves narrowly ovate to linear, sessile, 5–17 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, entire to sinuate, the margins much recurved. Flowers solitary. Male flower: pedicels 1–3.5 mm long; calyx 2–2.5 mm long; corolla 5–6 mm long, the tube 4–5 mm long; stamens 5, 3.5–4.5 mm long; ovary 0.4–1 mm long, infertile. Female flowers similar but stamens 1.5 mm long and infertile; ovary 1 mm long; ovules 4 or 5. Capsule subglobular, 3–4 mm long. Seeds c. 2 mm long.
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