Open or compact shrub to 1 m high, overall grey to brown stellate-tomentose. Leaves densely crowded on short branches, cuneate-obcordate, 5–10 mm long, 2–4(–6) mm wide, often partly or strongly folded, apex obcordate or obtuse. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile, closely subtended by 5 leafy bracts; sepals rudimentary or lacking; petals elliptic or obovate, 6–10 mm long, bright golden yellow, finely stellate outside; stigma deeply cleft into 5 spreading, linear lobes. Follicles glabrous, not beaked, c. 3.5 mm long. Flowers spring.