Weak, open shrub, 0.2–0.6 (–0.8) m high. Leaves petiolate, oblong to broadly ovate or elliptic, 10–15 mm long, chartaceous, scabridulous, sparsely stellate; margins often recurved. Umbels terminal or axillary, sessile, c. 3-flowered; pedicels slender, to 15 mm long, with stellate thick-centred hairs. Sepals semicircular, c. 0.2 mm long, glabrous. Petals ovate, 10–15 mm long, pink to mauve, closely covered abaxially with thick-centred, pale yellow, stellate hairs that form an armour-like cover to the flower bud. Stamens 12–15, glabrous; anthers c. 1.2 mm long, with minute terminal gland. Carpels 2–4, stellate-tomentose; style glabrous; stigma lobes fleshy, slightly recurved. Cocci with beak c. 2.5 mm long.
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