Spreading shrub to 30 cm high. Branches eglandular, sparsely puberulous; cuticle exfoliating and forming a grey scurfy covering. Leaves sessile, slender-terete to narrowly fusiform or narrowly clavate, 7–10 mm long, c. 1 mm wide, minutely puberulous. Pedicel 1–2 mm long. Sepals ovate, 2.5–3 mm long, 0.5–1.5 mm wide, glandular, glabrous to sparsely puberulous. Petals c. 5 mm long, pale red; abaxial surface glabrous to sparsely puberulous. Filaments pilose. Ovary minutely puberulous; style pilose; stigma scarcely wider than style. Fruit and seed not seen.