Suffrutescent perennial, 0.6–1 m tall, much-branched with opposite leaves and branches, young branches whitish-tomentose, older branches glabrescent, terete, striate. Leaves subrotund to broadly ovate or ± reniform, c. 0.9–2.5 x 1.1–3.5 cm, ± densely furnished with ± appressed whitish hairs, densest on the principal venation of the lower surface, obtuse to apiculate, truncate to subcordate at the base, distinctly if shortly petiolate. Inflorescences to c. 14 cm long, axis whitish- or greyish-tomentose. Partial inflorescences with 3–5 fertile flowers. Tepals narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 8–10.5 mm, densely furnished dorsally with lanuginose greyish-white hairs, 3-nerved, the inner slightly shorter. Filaments filiform throughout, abruptly expanded only at the point of insertion. Style 3–4 mm. Capsule ovoid, 3–3.5 mm. Sterile flowers with glabrous, stramineous to reddish-brown bristles c. 10–12 mm long.