Shrub to 0.6 m high. Branchlets stellate-pubescent; decurrent leaf bases absent. Leaves sessile, simple (or rarely trifoliolate), appressed to ± spreading, broadly boat-shaped, 2–3 mm long (rarely obovate, concave, to 7 mm long), slightly reflexed at apex, thick, glabrous (rarely stellate-pubescent). Flowers solitary in upper axils; pedicels 2 (–4) mm long, pubescent. Sepals triangular to broadly ovate, c. 2 mm long, glabrous or stellate-pubescent, sometimes dark red. Petals broadly elliptic, 3–5 mm long, sparsely stellate-pubescent, pink, dotted all over with usually red glands. Stamens: filaments narrowly oblong, glandular-verrucose towards apex, ciliate; anthers shortly apiculate. Ovary glabrous or stellate-puberulous; style terete, 0.5 mm long, pilose; stigma subcapitate.
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