Shrub to 7 m high, often branching almost horizontally; branchlets strongly angled, densely ferruginous- or silvery-lepidote. Leaves chartaceous, broad-ovate, 8–23 mm long, 6–15 mm wide, obtuse or slightly emarginate, upper surface glabrous, glandular, often appearing white-speckled, lower surface densely silvery-lepidote, smooth, margin flat; petiole 2–5 mm long. Inflorescence a decurved to pendent, axillary flower, rarely a 2- or 3-flowered cyme; peduncle 4–9 mm long; pedicels 1–4 mm long. Sepals free, deltoid, 1.5–2.5 mm long, lepidote, shortly united near base; petals imbricate, elliptic, 4–6 mm long, white, glabrous or glabrescent; stamens slightly shorter than petals, anther yellow; disc prominent; ovary with long fringed scales at base grading to stellate hairs near apex. Follicles becoming glabrous or with few hairs along groove, c. 4 mm long. Flowers winter and spring.
