Shrub to 50 cm high, glabrous except for staminal filaments. Branches smooth. Leaves frequently clustered in axillary fascicles, ±erect, subterete to narrowly elliptic with infolded margins, 2–3 cm long. Flowers in loose long-pedunculate cymes, shortly pedicellate. Sepals suborbicular, c. 2 mm long, coriaceous, rugose, persistent. Petals suborbicular, shortly clawed, c. 5 mm long, pink. Disc broad. Stamens: filaments semiterete, verrucose and pilose abaxially; anthers c. 1.3 mm long, shortly apiculate. Style c. 0.5 mm long; stigma capitate.