Erect shrub to c.1(–2) m high; branchlets glabrous to puberulent. Leaves ascending to spreading, ovate to obovate, or almost orbicular, 3.5–11 mm long, 1.7–4.5 mm wide, glabrous, ± flat, dull green to grey-green, lower surface usually slightly paler; apex obtuse; margins plane, entire, rarely minutely serrulate. Flowers solitary, white, sweet-scented; bracteoles and sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse to subacute; bracteoles 1–2 mm long, sepals 1.4–2.5 mm long; corolla tube ± cylindric, 4–6 mm long, glabrous inside except for 5 tufts of reflexed hairs between anthers; lobes acute to acuminate, 1.8–3 mm long, erect to recurved, inner surface papillose; anthers ± cohering, enclosed within corolla tube; ovary 5-locular, style glabrous to densely papillose-puberulent, 1.6–3.5 mm long. Flowers mainly Sep.–Dec.