Erect, woody perennial to 1 m high, glabrous apart from flowers. Branchlets terete; decurrent leaf bases faint or absent. Leaves sessile or subsessile, linear to elliptic or obovate or oblanceolate, 7–33 mm long, 1.5–11 mm wide, entire to serrate. Inflorescence 1–12-flowered umbelliform cyme; first pair of bracts 3–7 mm long; bracteoles vestigial, placed proximally on pedicels; pedicels 5–23 mm long, glabrous. Sepals deltate to ovate, 2–8 mm long, purple, caducous; abaxial surface glabrous. Petals 5–11 mm long, pink; abaxial surface glabrous. Stamens: filaments pilose, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anthers minutely apiculate or not. Ovary and style glabrous; stigma minute.
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