Erect, 30-150 cm high, branched, pubescent to hairy, perennial subshrub with ± elongated rhizome. Stem ± terete, profusely, dichotomously branched from base or above, pubescent to hairy or glabrous, woody. Leaves (1-) 1.5-4 (-6.8) x (0.9-) 1.0-3 (-3.5) cm, elliptic, lanceolate-ovate, acute, or obtuse at the apex, margin entire or undulate, ciliate or scabrous or glabrous; glabrous or pubescent on both sides with slightly rough or coriaceous texture, petiole 0.5-4.0 mm long. Ochrea 5.0-15 mm long, ovate-broadly ovate, entire to dentate, tubular, truncate, hairy. Inflorescence many flowered, dense, pubescent, up to 2.0 cm long pedunculate, terminal or axillary panicles; panicles (0.8-) 1.5-5 (-7) cm long. Flowers 2-3.5 mm across, pedicel 1-2.5 mm long, slightly longer in fruit. Ochreolae 1.5-3 mm long, lanceolate, cartilaginous, ciliate, hairy. Tepals 5, creamy white, subequal,1.5-3.5 x 0.75-1.25 mm, ovate to ovate elliptic, obtuse, entire, parallel veined, veins 3. Stamens 8, subexserted, filaments long, equal. Ovary 0.5-1.5 x c. 1.0 mm, oblanceolate, trigonous with three short styles and capitate stigma. Nuts (2-) 2.5-4 x 1.5-1.9 mm, ovate, brown, shining, included or slightly exserted from the tepals.