Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets erect, reddish brown to black, glabrous. Leaves very shortly petiolate, crowded, ascending, semiterete, 2–5 mm long, obtuse with a prominent black apiculum, fleshy, minutely woolly ciliate, flattened and sulcate above, minutely black-stipulate when young. Flowers 1–3; pedicels turbinate, c. 1 mm long, fleshy, subtended by small resinous red ciliate bracteoles. Sepals somewhat unequal, suborbicular, c. 4 mm long, glabrous, green. Petals narrowly oblong-elliptic, c. 11 mm long, glabrous, yellow to red with age. Stamens: filaments exceeding petals, pink-to red-sericeous except towards base; anthers c. 4 mm long.
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