Scrambling subshrub to about 20 cm tall with growing tips erect. Leaves to about 5 cm long and 1.5 cm wide, more or less ovate to lanceolate with long stipules, hairy above (hairs not star-shaped). Flowers to about 2.5 cm wide in flat-topped clusters; summer.

Europe, Asia Minor

Source: Spencer, R. (1997). Cistaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.