Erect shrub to 3 m high. Branches with moderately dense stellate indumentum. Stellate hairs with rays to 0.5 mm long. Leaves simple, sessile or petiolate; petiole to 1.5 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic to elliptic to lanceolate, (13–) 18–50 (–70) mm long, (1–) 3.5–12 mm wide, strongly attenuate, slightly recurved to revolute; adaxial surface with sparse to moderately dense stellate indumentum. Inflorescence 1–5-flowered; peduncle to 5 mm long; pedicels 2–6.5 mm long. Sepals broadly ovate-deltate, (4–) 5–10 mm long, 3–4.5 mm wide (–7 mm with fruit), acuminate; abaxial surface stellate-tomentose. Petals 6–15 mm long, pink; abaxial surface with dense stellate indumentum. Stamens: filaments pilose; anther apiculum large. Style glabrous or with few hairs. Cocci glabrous or hirsute.
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