Erect glabrous perennial to 40 cm high. Branchlets terete. Leaves narrowly to broadly elliptic or obovate, 1–2 (–3) cm long, ±equal to internodes, entire or almost so. Flowers in umbelliform cymes, mostly terminal to long branches; bracts large, ovate, red, caducous; pedicels of lateral flowers slender, 7–20 mm long, dark red, eglandular, articulate at base, seemingly ebracteolate, with a pair of extremely minute bracteoles or incipient buds at base. Sepals triangular-ovate to elliptic, 2.5–5 mm long, glabrous, dark red, caducous. Petals ovate, 6–10 mm long, acute, ± glabrous, pink to mauve (darker in centre). Stamens: filaments slender-terete, glandular-verrucose apically, stiffly ciliate; anthers very minutely apiculate. Disc glabrous. Ovary glabrous; style terete, c. 1 mm long, glabrous; stigma subcapitate.
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