Lemon-scented shrub to 0.6 m high, without lignotuber. Branchlets terete, with leaf bases not decurrent, not glandular-verrucose, stellate-pubescent. Leaves unifoliolate, subsessile or petiole to 0.7 mm long; lamina oblong to ovate, 5–16 mm long, 1–5.5 mm wide, entire, recurved to revolute at margins, obtuse; both surfaces not glandular-verrucose; adaxial surface velvety; abaxial surface pubescent, with midrib not glandular-verrucose, pubescent, with secondary venation obscure. Inflorescences usually not exceeding leaves, 1–3-flowered. Sepals 1.6–2 or 2.5–5.5 mm long, pubescent. Petals imbricate, 2–2.2 or 4–7 mm long, pale pink or very occasionally creamy white, pubescent both sides. Filaments not dilated or glandular-verrucose, hirsute to glabrous. Cocci apiculate, not glandular-verrucose, pubescent.