Shrub to 50 cm high. Branchlets pilose in lines or all over. Leaves crowded; petiole 0.5–1 mm long; lamina 5–7 (–11)-foliolate, to 2 cm long, pilose or glabrous; leaflets thick, linear-spathulate, slightly falcate, 5–7 mm long, entire, recurved. Flowers axillary, solitary, shortly pedicellate. Sepals ovate to narrowly triangular, 1–2 mm long, glabrous or puberulous. Petals 5–8 mm long, sparsely puberulous, pink. Disc glabrous. Stamens: filaments terete, c. 2 mm long, sparsely verrucose, hirsutely ciliate; antisepalous filaments and often the antipetalous ones also swollen at apex; anthers 0.2–0.6 mm long, shortly apiculate. Ovary densely pubescent; style cylindrical, to 1 mm long, sparsely pilose, stigma minute.