Pubescent shrub 1-3 m tall. Leaves ovate, 30-60 mm long, 15-30 mm wwe; base obtuse; margins shallowly serrulate; apex obtuse; adaxial lamina wrinkled, sparsely pubescent with greyish stellate hairs; abaxial lamina densely pubescent with greyish (rarely rusty on veins) stellate hairs. Inflorescence of 20 to >50 flowers, pyramidal, terminal or upper-axillary, 5-15 cm long, 2-7 cm wide; bracts caducous; pedicels 1.5-2.5 mm long. Flowers cream, externally densely pubescent with greyish stellate hairs; hypanthium 1.25-2 mm in diameter, 1-1.5 mm long; sepals 1.8-2.1 mm long; stamens 1.5-2.5 mm long, erect; anthers 0.75-1 mm long; ovary virtually inferior, pubescent with long stellate hairs; style 1-1.5 mm long, branched in middle third. Fruit 3--4 mm long, blackish, obovoid to ovoid; apex obtuse; torus in middle third; operculum membranous, occupying most of inner face; seed 1.5-1.75 mm long.

Differt a subspecie typica foliis obtusis, ad bis longioribus quam latioribus, pagina supera pilis stellatis persistenctibus et in habitione maritima.