Woody perennial herb or small shrub, sometimes scandent, 0.6–2 m, much-branched with the branches widely divaricate; stem and branches ± densely pilose with yellowish ± appressed hairs, terete and glabrescent with age. Leaves ovate to elliptic or elliptic-oblong, 2–10 x 1–4.6 cm, opposite, acute to acuminate, shortly to long-cuneate into a short petiole, moderately to finely pubescent above and below, especially on the lower surface of the primary venation. Inflorescences of short spikes, 7–8 mm wide and finally 2–5 cm long, terminal and axillary, sessile or pedunculate, axis ± crispate-pilose. Flowers sessile. Tepals white or greenish, firm, faintly 5-nerved with more obscure subsidiary nerves; 2 outer 3.5–4.5 mm, lanceolate-oblong, narrowly hyaline-margined, uniformly shortly pilose; inner 2 lanceolate-ovate, slightly shorter, pilose mainly centrally, with broad hyaline margins; middle tepal uniformly pilose with a narrow margin on one side, broadly margined on the other. Pseudostaminodes absent. Style c. 0.75 mm. Capsule oblong-ovoid, c. 1.75 mm.
