Rounded shrub to 30 cm high. Branches puberulous all over or in lines. Leaves subsessile, 3–7-foliolate, 1–1.5 cm long, coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely puberulous; leaflets linear-spathulate, 5–10 mm long, flat or convex. Flowers axillary, solitary, pendulous, frequently on older wood; pedicel 3–5 mm long, thickened above. Sepals suborbicular, c. 2.5 mm long, sparsely puberulous or glabrous, dark red. Petals 4 mm long, sparsely puberulous, cream to reddish brown. Disc entire, puberulous. Stamens: filaments terete, puberulous; antisepalous filaments with spherical, verrucose apex and anthers 0.2–0.6 mm long; antipetalous filaments slightly verrucose and with anthers 1–2 mm long. Ovary puberulous; stigma sessile, cushion-shaped and quadrangular, 1–1.5 mm wide.