Virgate shrub to 1 m high. Branches minutely puberulous in lines. Leaves 3–5 (–7)-foliolate, 1–1.5 cm long, coriaceous, glabrous; petiole and rachis slender, terete, 3–5 mm long; leaflets narrowly oblong-elliptic, 3–10 mm long, acute. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 3-flowered cymes; pedicels slender, 6–14 mm long, glabrous. Sepals narrowly triangular, 2–3 mm long, glabrous, red. Petals ovate, c. 8 mm long, slender apiculate, puberulous adaxially and towards margins abaxially, deep pink. Stamens: filaments slender, 3 mm long, sparsely ciliate, swollen and verrucose at apex; anthers 1 mm long, minutely apiculate. Style (including stigma) terete, c. 1 mm long, medially pilose.
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