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Shrub 0.3–4 m tall; stems with a dense white, cream or grey cottony tomentum, at length greyish but persistently tomentose; older stems bearing the new year's shoots can be blackish and glabrous; bark on tall specimens smooth and brown.Leaves paired or in whorls of 3, blades 1.7–7 × 1–4 cm, ovate to broadly elliptic, rounded to acute at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, very discolorous, densely covered with a floccose white or grey cottony tomentum, becoming glabrous above and the upper surface scarcely obscured, persistently thickly white cottony tomentose beneath; venation deeply impressed above; petiole 2–5(7) mm long; stipules 1–2 mm long, triangular with a subulate appendage c. 6 mm long.Cymes 3–6-flowered but sometimes appearing as dense verticillasters in inflorescences occurring at leafless nodes bearing 3 abbreviated new shoots; peduncle 0–3(15) mm long; pedicels 3–4(8) mm long; bracts 3.5–5 mm long, lanceolate.Calyx tube 3–4 mm long, ± globose, densely tomentose; limb ± truncate but with thin teeth c. 1 mm long, lacking tomentum.Corolla creamy-white, pale green or distinctly yellow, densely tomentose outside; tube 15–20 mm long, straight or somewhat curved, with a ring of deflexed and erect hairs ± 2/3 of way down inside; lobes 3–6 × 2.2–2.5 mm, ovate-triangular, ± acute.Stigma green, exserted 1–2.5 mm beyond the throat; the pollen presenter green, coroniform, deeply 5-lobed at the apex.Fruit about 10 × 8 mm, subglobose, distinctly 4-lobed in dry state, with scattered cottony tomentum.