Much-branched perennial herb or shrublet ; up to 30 cm high , with woody base . Stems erect to ascending , densely branched , whitish-green to grey-green , covered with adpressed white hairs throughout ; bark silvery , flaking . Leaves alternate , 8–25 × 1–2 mm , sessile , greyish-green , linear to linear-lanceolate , base shortly cuneate , apex acute , margins entire , adpressed white hairy . Inflorescences terminal ; flowers in lax cymes with leaves reduced to bracts , 2–4 mm , lanceolate , or bracts absent . Flowers white , tubular to campanulate ; calyx 5-lobed , persistent ; lobes free to base , unequal , 1 . 5–2 mm , lanceolate , adpressed hairy , often connivent in fruit ; corolla white , tubular to campanulate , 5-lobed , sparsely hairy outside , pilose internally below the stamens ; tube ± 1 . 5mm , hairy on the outside ; lobes small , ± 1 mm , ovate-oblong , cucullate ; stamens attached to the middle of corolla tube ; ovary glabrous ; style 2–3 times longer than the stigma , the two together ± 1 mm . long ; stigma capitate or globose , with a small
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