Branch stout, glabrous, white; branchlets densely hairy with spreading clustered almost stellate hairs and with numerous gland-tipped hairs. Leaves 1/2–1 by 1/4– 1/3 in., elliptic, triangularly narrowed at both ends, densely tomentose with white stellate hairs (more or less disappearing in age) and with few gland-tipped hairs, also with simple long 1-celled tawny acicular hairs, especially on the nerves; petiole 0– 1/20 in. long. Racemes 2–1-flowered; bracts (sterile and fertile) 1/4– 1/3 in. long, spines apparently subulate, simple, but minutely toothed, hairy. Posticous and anticous calyx-segments subequal, 1/2 by 1/6 in., oblong, spine-toothed, becoming scarious reticulate-veined before the fruit is ripe. Style 3/4 in. long. Capsule 1/2 in. long, 4-seeded.