Woody perennials 0.3–3 m high. Branches slender, glabrous, smooth, with narrow, entire to denticulate wings decurrent from each side of leaf base. Leaves linear to broadly elliptic or obovate, 2–5 cm long, serrulate to denticulate, obtuse to acute. Flowers axillary; pedicel 2–5 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Sepals 1.5–2 mm long, glabrous. Petals ovate, c. 12 mm long, persistent, white to pink, darker with age. Stamens: filaments linear, glandular-verrucose at apex, sparsely pilose; anther thecae 2 mm long, pilose abaxially towards apex; apiculum c. 1.5 mm long, linear-lanceolate, pilose, white. Style pilose; stigma globular. Cocci erect, rounded at summit, c. 3.5 mm long. Seed subreniform, 2–2.5 mm long.
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