Branchlets hispidulous. Leaves 4-6 mm long, alternate, ascending, subimbricate, lanceolate-oblong, obtuse, tapering shortly at the base, concave and smooth above, slightly swollen behind the apex, with rigid cilia based on marginal glands, obtusely keeled beneath, with glands mostly on the keel. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 4-5 mm, long, puberulous, with slender bracteoles about the middle. Sepals 1 mm long, lanceolate, obtuse, obtusely keeled, glabrous. Petals 4 mm long; blade obovate-oblong, very obtuse; claw half as long, linear, ciliolate. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 2.5 mm long, oblong-linear, obtuse, slightly widened and shortly ciliate in the lower half, tapering towards the base. Ovary glabrous, with 3 carpels bearing oblong obtuse processes. Style glabrous.
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Erect, sparsely branched shrublet to 50 cm, leaf tips greatly swollen beneath. Flowers in terminal clusters, pink. Fruits 3-chambered.