Spreading shrub c. 0.5 m high, frequently resinous. Branchlets grey to black, glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Leaves crowded, ascending or spreading with a short (c. 0.4 mm) erect petiole, from semi-obovoid with rounded apex and c. 3 mm long to slender, semiterete, mucronate and 12 mm long, sulcate adaxially, smooth, often ciliate. Flowers usually solitary, sessile. Sepals ±equal, suborbicular, concave, c. 4 mm long, coriaceous or if fleshy then without a ridge, ciliate, otherwise glabrous (rarely shortly hispid), pale red. Petals c. 8 mm long, yellow or red, often with green tips. Stamens: filaments exceeding petals, densely white-to mauve-sericeous, often dark red at tips; anthers c. 2 mm long.
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