Spreading divaricately-branched shrub, c. 30 cm high. Branchlets spinescent, smooth, extremely minutely puberulous. Leaves alternate, fasciculate on older wood, sessile, very narrowly obovate, terete or subterete, 3–6 mm long, rounded below, concave above, thickened, glabrous. Flowers solitary, terminal to short shoots; pedicel 2–3 mm long, slender above the small bracteoles. Sepals narrowly triangular, 1.5–2 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Petals elliptic, c. 4 mm long, glabrous, glandular-punctate around midvein, white. Stamens: filaments narrowly oblong, glandular-verrucose in upper half, ciliate; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, shortly and bluntly apiculate. Ovary glabrous; style slender-terete, c. 1.2 mm long, glabrous; stigma minute. Fruit not seen.
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