Slender shrub to 1 m high, glabrous except staminal filaments. Branches slender, terete. Leaves linear to narrowly elliptic, rarely obovate, 2–5 cm long, usually exceeding internodes, denticulate or entire, coriaceous. Flowers in loose cymes, terminal or in axils of uppermost leaves; bracts and bracteoles very small, caducous; pedicels 5–20 mm long, initially bibracteolate just below middle. Sepals ovate-triangular, 1.5–2.5 mm long, green to pale red, caducous. Petals ovate, c. 5 mm long, obtuse, pale pink with darker midrib. Stamens: filaments sub-terete, sparsely ciliate, rarely glabrous; anthers c. 1 mm long, very minutely apiculate. Disc cushion-shaped. Style terete, c. 1 mm long, glabrous.
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