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Shrub or small tree 2–4 m tall, aromatic; young branchlets densely covered with silvery and/or brown scales, the scales entire or almost so. Leaves crowded and almost whorled at ends of branchlets; blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 3–9.5 x 1–3 cm, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, cuneate to almost rounded at the base, entire, glabrous and dark green above, densely covered with silvery scales as well as scattered brown scales beneath, scales minutely denticulate; petiole 0.3–1.5 cm long. Racemes terminal, c. 1 cm long, resembling a globular cluster. Flowers densely covered by silvery scales, the female with 3 spreading styles c. 1.5 mm long, bipartite with linear-subulate lobes. Fruit subglobose, c. 6 mm in diam., septicidal, densely covered with silvery scales and scattered brown scales. Seeds 5 x 3 mm, with a hemispherical caruncle c. 1.5 mm wide.

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Shrub or small tree 2–4 m tall, aromatic; young branchlets densely covered with silvery and/or brown scales, the scales entire or almost so. Leaves crowded and almost whorled at ends of branchlets; blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 3–9.5 x 1–3 cm, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, cuneate to almost rounded at the base, entire, glabrous and dark green above, densely covered with silvery scales as well as scattered brown scales beneath, scales minutely denticulate; petiole 0.3–1.5 cm long. Racemes terminal, c. 1 cm long, resembling a globular cluster. Flowers densely covered by silvery scales, the female with 3 spreading styles c. 1.5 mm long, bipartite with linear-subulate lobes. Fruit subglobose, c. 6 mm in diam., septicidal, densely covered with silvery scales and scattered brown scales. Seeds 5 x 3 mm, with a hemispherical caruncle c. 1.5 mm wide.

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Shrub or small tree 2–4 m tall, aromatic; young branchlets densely covered with silvery and/or brown scales, the scales entire or almost so. Leaves crowded and almost whorled at ends of branchlets; blade elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, 3–9.5 x 1–3 cm, obtuse or emarginate at the apex, cuneate to almost rounded at the base, entire, glabrous and dark green above, densely covered with silvery scales as well as scattered brown scales beneath, scales minutely denticulate; petiole 0.3–1.5 cm long. Racemes terminal, c. 1 cm long, resembling a globular cluster. Flowers densely covered by silvery scales, the female with 3 spreading styles c. 1.5 mm long, bipartite with linear-subulate lobes. Fruit subglobose, c. 6 mm in diam., septicidal, densely covered with silvery scales and scattered brown scales. Seeds 5 x 3 mm, with a hemispherical caruncle c. 1.5 mm wide.