Stems to 70 cm long; branches erect to spreading. Leaves of branches: lamina divergent, 10-30 mm long, pungent, yellowish green; margins scabrid; nerves 9-13, slightly rounded; grooves ±closed, scabrid; auricles triangular, 4-6 mm long, becoming lacerated; lamina of primary-stem leaves 30-50 mm long. Flowers terminal; pedicels 5 mm long. Sepals and petals 4.5-5.5 mm long, the sepals white, petals pink. Stamens c. 3 mm long. Pistil 3 mm long, tapering upwards. Capsule 6-7 mm long, verrucose; tubercles irregularly conical, obtuse to almost acute, to 1 mm long. Seed 4-5 mm long, irregularly reticulate.
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