Much-branched shrub, c. 1.5 m high. Branchlets glossy and white when young with short raised rounded glandular-verrucose glabrous ridges from decurrent leaf-bases. Leaves crowded and sub-imbricate, sessile, subterete, thick, 2–3 mm long, rounded at apex, smooth, fleshy, glabrous, sulcate adaxially. Flowers solitary; pedicel turbinate, c. 1.5 mm long, fleshy, glandular-verrucose, glabrous; bracteoles absent. Sepals unequal, triangular to suborbicular, 2–4 mm long; sparsely ciliate otherwise glabrous, red; margin thin; centre prominently raised, fleshy and glandular. Petals narrowly oblong-ovate, c. 13 mm long, glabrous, blood-red. Stamens: tube 1.5–2 cm long, densely silky, red; anthers 3 mm long.
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