Erect resinous shrubs to c. 1.2 m high with long simple hairs over shorter glandular and stellate hairs. Leaves ± sessile, lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or oblong, 2–5(–7.5) cm long, 2–10(–15) mm wide, dark green above, paler below; apex acute; margins recurved (when dry); 3–5-nerved at base. Inflorescence a one-sided, terminal cyme of up to 10 flowers; peduncles 20–52 mm long; flowers c. 3 cm diam.; sepals 5, ovate, the outer sepals broader, persistent; petals obovate, c. 13 mm long, white, yellow at base; style to c. 0.5 mm long. Capsule c. 4 mm long, glabrous except for a dense apical tuft of stellate hair; seeds 1.5–2.6 mm long, glossy, dark brown, wrinkled. Flowers Nov. (2 records).
VVP, GipP. Native to southern Europe, northern Africa and the Canary Islands, cultivated, plants beginning to spread from garden beds at the Clunes cemetery .
