Erect shrub to 1 (–2) m high. Branches quadrangular, stellate-tomentose. Stellate hairs with rays to 0.1 mm long. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 6–21 mm long, 0.5–4.5 mm wide, attenuate at base, flat or slightly recurved, obtuse; abaxial surface with a sparse to moderately dense layer of multiangular stellate hairs and a dense layer of smaller planar stellate hairs. Peduncle to 0.5 mm long; pedicel 1.5–3 mm long. Sepals ovate-deltate, 2–2.5 (–3) mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, acute. Petals 4–6 mm long (–8 mm when in fruit), 2–3 mm wide (–5 mm in fruit), pink; abaxial surface with sparse simple indumentum. Anther apiculum large, erect. Style glabrous. Cocci densely hairy.