Main stems prostrate, rooting, often buried in sand, stout; branches erect or ascending, stout at base, up to 4 dm. or more tall; branchlets us. many, densely clad in long silvery appressed hairs; bark dark brown to blackish. Lvs decussate, often close-set, becoming patent and distant, on very short petioles or sessile. Lamina 5-7-(12) × 3-5 mm., elliptic-oblong to suborbicular, or sts about ovate, rounded to subacute at apex, coriac., glabrate above, densely clad in appressed silky hairs below. Subfloral lvs ± 7 × 5 mm. Infl. of (3)-5-10-(15)-fld heads. Per. white, villous, 5-7 mm. long; tube of ♀ urceolate, lobes ± apiculate, oblong, 1-2 mm. long. Fr. baccate, white or red, ± 3 mm. long or more.