Much-branched shrub 1–1.5 m tall; young twigs densely covered with sessile scales. Leaves alternate on the annual shoots, often clustered on older wood; blade linear-oblong or elliptic-oblong, leathery, 8–22 x 1.5–5 mm, apically obtuse or acute, basally rounded, farinose; petiole 0.8–1.5 mm long, farinose. Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in 2–4(–5)-flowered racemes; rhachis up to 8–10 mm long; pedicels 10–18 mm long, farinose. Sepals 4, ovate, c. 7 x 4–6 mm, sparsely covered with sessile scales. Petals 4, with claw 5–6 mm long and elliptic- oblong blade up to 8 mm long. Androphore 8–15 mm long; appendage tubular, 8–10 mm long; stamens 4; filaments 8–10 mm long. Gynophore glabrous, up to 20 mm long; ovary cylindrical, densely glandular, 2–3 mm long; style c. 1 mm long; stigma reduced and flattened. Fruit cylindrical, 10–16 x 3–6 mm, densely covered with papillose glands.