A nearly glabrous undershrub, 1–2 feet high. Branches terete, with pale bark; young shoots herbaceous, puberulous. Leaves oval, shortly acuminate, wedge-shaped at the base, subglabrescent, chartaceous, 3–5 by 3/4–2 in., margins narrowly revolute, lateral veins about 7 pairs, slender, tertiary veins at length clearly marked beneath; petiole 1/6– 3/4 in., puberulous; stipules ovate, undivided, puberulous. Flowers pentamerous, 1/5– 1/4 in. long, on very short puberulous pedicels, umbellately arranged in dense terminal sessile or subsessile clusters of 2/3– 3/4 in. diameter which are bracteate at the base. Calyx green, puberulous; limb exceeding the ovary, hemispherical with 5 very small teeth which are pale in the dry state. Corolla white; tube cylindrical, densely bearded inside. Anthers linear, included; filaments short. Style bidentate, shortly exserted.
