Erect shrub to 70 cm. Leaves mostly clustered at tips of shoots, entire, rarely lobed, sessile, ovate or linear-lanceolate to obovate, to 25 mm long, to 6 mm wide, obtuse at apex, glabrescent, with single, prominent, dorsal apical gland; lobes, if present, 3, c. 4 mm long, with single gland on each apex. Involucral bracts divaricate or remaining imbricate when mature, innermost bracts with prominent gland at apex. Perianth c. 22 mm long, pinkish scarlet and cream, hirsute outside. Style c. 35 mm long, glabrous; ovary glabrous.