Erect to spreading shrub, 40–150 cm high; branchlets hispid. Leaves spreading, ± oblong, 7–17 mm long, 1.2–3 mm wide, convex, concolorous or slightly paler beneath, glabrous to pilose; margins entire or serrulate toward apex; apex abruptly acuminate, with mucro 0.5–2 mm long. Flowers white or pale pink, solitary or usually paired in axils; bracteoles 1.4–2 mm long, wider than long, obtuse, shortly mucronate, glabrous to sparsely and minutely hispid near apex; sepals ovate, 3–3.7 mm long, acute, or obtuse and shortly mucronate, glabrous or minutely scabrous or ciliate near tip; corolla 4.5–6 mm long, lobes slightly shorter than tube, acute, recurved only near tips, bearded toward apex, only margins ciliate in lower part; anthers lacking sterile tips; ovary glabrous, 5-locular, style 4–7 mm long, shortly exceeding corolla. Fruit ellipsoid, 3–4 mm long. Flowers Oct.–Dec.