Shrub 0.3–0.6 m tall; stems purplish black, 2.5–6 mm diameter at base, softly hairy, with stellate hairs, at length glabrous. Leaf-blade greyish green, oblong-elliptic to ovate-rhombic, (2–)2.6–4.2≈(0.6–)0.8–1.5 cm, apex rounded, margin shallowly and obliquely serrate, base cuneate, rarely rounded, nerves 6–8(–10) on each side of the midrib, upper surface densely silvery stellate-hairy, less dense on the lower surface; petiole 3–5 mm long; stipules narrowly lanceolate-subulate, 3–5(–7) mm long. Inflorescence a terminal thyrse (2.5–)3.5–6(–12) cm long, moderately stellate-hairy, partial-inflorescences 4–7, 1–2(–4.5) cm long at base, each bearing (1–)2–5(–7) flowers, lowest partial peduncle 3–7(–20) mm long; peduncular bracts subulate, 4–10≈1.5–2 mm; partial-rhachis bracts 1–2 mm long; pedicellar bracts absent; pedicel 2.5–6.5 mm long. Flowers erect, yellow, tinged orange, 6–12 mm wide. Calyx base campanulate, 2.5–3≈3–4.5 mm, lobes narrowly triangular, 3–4≈1.2–1.8 mm, indumentum as leaf-blade. Petals reflexed, weakly clawed, 5–7≈3.2–4.5 mm, blade obovate or transversely elliptic, claw 2–3≈1.8 mm, margins not involute, glabrous. Stamens with filaments 1.3–2≈0.3–0.8 mm, oblong, with a pair of patent appendages 0.8–1.5 mm from the base, appendages falcate, 0.5–1≈0.15 mm, glabrous, anthers 4–5≈0.7–1.3 mm. Ovary ovoid, 2.5–2.8≈1.3–1.8 mm; style 4 mm long. Immature fruit capsule narrowly ovoid, 5-angular, 13≈5 mm, slightly stellate-hairy; seeds unknown.