Shrub to 1.3 m high. Branchlets pilose. Leaves simple, sessile, narrowly oblong or semi-terete or fleshy, clavate to semiobovoid, 4–15 mm long, flat to concave above, glabrous or pilose. Flowers terminal, in compact heads or solitary; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Sepals broadly elliptic to narrowly triangular, glabrous or pilose. Petals broadly elliptic, c. 6 mm long, entirely glabrous or puberulous on midrib, pink. Stamens: filaments terete, verrucose, somewhat swollen at apex, densely woolly-ciliate; anthers c. 1 mm long, with a white recurved apiculum. Disc narrow, glabrous. Ovary glabrous; style terete, ± equal to stamens, sparsely pilose; stigma very small.
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