Resprouting shrublet up to 1 metre, sweetly- or herb-scented. Leaves lie close to the stem, lance-shaped to rounded 2.5-5mm long, overlapping, concave above with fine hairs on the edges. Flowers in dense clusters at tips of branches, usually white, sometimes pale-purple, petals 4-7.5mm long; narrow spoon-shaped hairy staminodes.