Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets obtusely angular to terete, puberulous in sunken lines between rounded leaf decurrences. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong or narrowly elliptic, rarely spathulate or obcordate, from 15–30 mm long and 1 mm wide to 75 mm long and 6 mm wide, flat or margins recurved, or revolute and then appearing terete, glabrous or sparsely puberulous; apex rounded to obtuse, apiculate to mucronate, or retuse, rarely obcordate. Flowers terminal to main or lateral branchlets, subtended by 3–5 sometimes foliaceous bracteoles; pedicel 0.5–4 mm long, fleshy, glabrous to puberulous. Sepals sub-orbicular to broadly elliptic, 1.5–2.5 mm long, glabrous or puberulous. Petals narrowly to broadly ovate, 5–14 mm long, pink to pale mauve, sometimes becoming green, persistent, becoming chartaceous and broader in fruit. Stamens: filaments flattened, densely pilose on margins and on adaxial surface; anther apiculum 2–3 mm long, bearded.
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