Branchlets pubescent. Leaves 5-8 mm long, alternate, ascending, subimbricate, linear-lanceolate, acute, rounded at the base, slightly incurved towards the apex, concave and glabrous above, pilose-ciliate, convex and obtusely keeled beneath, slightly thickened behind the apex, pilose on the keel, with glands almost confined to the keel and margin. Flowers in terminal clusters. Peduncles 6-7 mm long, puberulous, with slender hair-tipped bracteoles on the lower half. Sepals 1.5-1.75 mm long, lanceolate, subacute, obtusely keeled, glabrous. Petals 4.5 mm long, glabrous; blade narrowly obovate; claw two thirds as long, linear. Stamens glabrous. Staminodes 1.5 mm long, linear-oblanceolate, attenuate, gland-tipped, tapering towards the base, ciliate at the middle. Ovary pilose-setose on the apex, with 3 carpels bearing rounded processes. Style glabrous.
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Sturdy, untidy, twisted ?resprouting shrublet to 40 cm, herb-scented. Flowers in large, terminal clusters, bright mauve-pink. Fruits 3-chambered.