Erect, woody shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets not obviously glandular, glabrous to sparsely pilose between decurrent leaf bases. Leaves crowded, appressed, sessile or subsessile, broadly obovate, 6–18 mm long, 1.5–9 mm wide, finely toothed, glabrous or sparsely ciliate, concolorous. Inflorescence terminal, 1–7-flowered; peduncles and pedicels 0–3.5 mm long. Sepals deltate, 2.5–3 mm long, minutely ciliate. Petals 6–11 mm long, pink or white; abaxial surface glabrous. Stamens: filaments pilose with a dense tuft of hairs on the glandular tip; anthers with antrorse hairs; apiculum absent or minute. Ovary glabrous; style vestigial, concealed by massively swollen stigma.
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