Shrubs ca. 1 m tall. Stem stout, much branched in upper part, with gray-brown bark; epidermis splitting longitudinally; woody branches straight; bark light brown, splitting fibrously; herbaceous branchlets of current year brown, cylindric, glabrous. Leaves very shortly petiolate, green, lanceolate-oblong or linear, 1.4-4 × 0.2-1.5 cm, leathery, glabrous, reticulate veins prominent, base attenuate, margin entire or slightly crenate, apex obtuse, with a short point; ocrea brown at base, cylindric, membranous, pellucid, with 2 slender veins, oblique in upper part and cleft into 2 teeth. Pedicel stout, jointed above middle. Flowers in terminal racemes on branchlets of current year. Tepals 5, pink; outer tepals reflexed in fruit, oblong, longer than above-joint portion of pedicel; inner tepals elliptic, broadly elliptic, or ovate-elliptic, base broadly wedge-form or rounded, apex obtuse. Achenes dark brown, narrowly ovoid, 4-6 mm, trigonous, glabrous, densely granular-raised. Fl. and fr. Jul-Sep.
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A shrub. It grows about 1 m tall. The stems are stout and branched in the upper part. The bark is grey-brown. The leaves are sword shaped or narrow. They are 2-4 cm long by 1 cm wide. They are leathery.
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