Erect shrub to 1.5 m high. Branches glabrous, glossy and tawny when young, with short, raised, rounded, glandular-verrucose ridges from decurrent leaf bases. Leaves crowded, with short (c. 0.4 mm) erect petiole, fleshy, clavate, flattened and channelled adaxially, 2–3.2 (–3.6) mm long, 0.8–1.1 mm wide, rounded with a minute reddish brown apiculum, sparsely long-ciliate on margin at least when young. Flowers solitary, 10–17 mm long; pedicel turbinate, fleshy, to 1.5 mm long. Sepals unequal, suborbicular, (2.6–) 3.2–4.5 (–5.2) mm long, ciliate, otherwise glabrous, chartaceous with fleshy centre, green turning red with age. Petals narrowly oblong-ovate, 9–14 mm long, red. Stamens: tube c. 10 mm long, densely white silky on upper 1/3, turning red with age; anthers 1.5–2.5 mm long.
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