Erect, slender-stemmed perennial c. 1 m high. Branches glabrous, terete. Leaves caducous, slender, semiterete, channelled above, 1–1.5 cm long, much shorter than internodes, glabrous or sparsely woolly on midrib. Flowers 3–9 in terminal umbelliform cymes; pedicels 5–12 mm long, somewhat woolly; bracts and scarious basal bracteoles small, caducous. Sepals elliptic, c. 4 mm long, acute, woolly, dark red, caducous. Petals broadly obovate, c. 7 mm long, sparsely woolly on midrib abaxially and adaxially, pink. Stamens: filaments terete above, glandular-verrucose at swollen apex, prominently ciliate; anthers shortly apiculate. Disc cushion-shaped, glabrous. Ovary glabrous; style cylindrical, c. 1.5 mm long; stigma minute.
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