Evergreen shrub, hermaphrodite, 0.5-1 m in height, highly ramose, sightly or not at all viscous. It can be easily confused with rosemary when it has no flowers due to its size and leaves. Branches extended-erect, with greyish-brown bark. Branchlets green or reddish, with simple long hairs, and other hairs much smaller and applied. Leaves 1-3 \u00d7 0.1-0.4 cm, opposite, sessile, semiclasping, linear, ending in an obtuse tip, with revolute margin; green and glabrescent on the upper side; whitish, with dense tomentum of stellate hairs on the underside; with a single longitudinal vein. Inflorescences in lateral umbelliform cymes, short, 4-5(10) cm long, divided into 2-4 smaller groups each composed of 2-3(5) flowers, with relatively wide flower buds (3-8 mm). Flowers small, 2-3.5 cm in diameter. Pedicels and calyx usually villous, \u00b1 hirsute, with whitish hairs. Calyx with 3 ovoid sepals, 4-8 mm long, promptly caducous. Corolla with 5 white petals. Fruits in subspherical capsule, 4-8 mm, with tomentum of stellate hairs, dehiscent in 5 valves. Seeds rounded-tetrahedral, almost smooth or finely granular surface. 2n = 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12987","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n