Shrub or subshrub, evergreen, hermaphrodite, up to 1.5(2) m in height, erect, highly ramose, light grey in appearance. Branches, branchlets and basal leaves covered with a dense whitish tomentum of stellate, velvety hairs. Leaves usually opposite, \u00b1 ovate, lanceolate or obovate, with entire margin, flat or slightly undulate; there are 2 types (dimorphic): leaves of sterile branches (usually the basal branches) are 0.4-4 \u00d7 0.2-1.6 cm, with short petiole, with clearly marked central vein on the underside, greyish-whitish on both sides because they are covered by a dense tomentum of stellate hairs (also with some simple hairs), persistent; leaves of floriferous branches (usually the upper branches) are more homogeneous in size (0.7-3.1 \u00d7 0.4-1.1 cm), sessile, with 3 clearly marked longitudinal veins, green because they are almost completely lacking of stellate hairs on the upper side (they only have them in the terminal part), covered with stellate hairs on the underside (they also have simple hairs on both sides). Inflorescence in relatively dense cymes, with short hirsute peduncles, with dense tomentum of stellate and applied hairs, mixed in with other simple solitary hairs or forming small fascicles. Flowers shortly pedicellate, in small groups of 1-5. Calyx with 3 sepals, 3.5-17 mm long, ovate, longly acute or even acuminate, with stellate hairs and simple unicellular hairs, solitary or fasciculate, mixed in with other multicellular, reddish and glanduliferous hairs. Corolla with 5 petals (7-20 mm long), yellow, usually with a brownish patch on the base. Fruit an ovoid capsule, 4-10 mm long, dehiscent in 3 valves, not visible because it is hidden inside the persistent calyx. Seeds (1-1.5 mm) polyhedral, with tuberculated surface and dark brown. 2n = 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12993","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n