Shrub c. 1 m high. Branchlets angular, minutely stellate. Leaves thick, narrowly oblong to elliptic or obovate, 30 × 3.5–7 mm, entire, coriaceous, minutely stellate to glabrous. Flowers towards apex of branches; pedicel 4–12 mm long. Sepals deltate-orbicular, c. 2 mm long, densely stellate-lepidote. Petals elliptic, 10–14 mm long, pink to red, silky-stellate. Stamens: filaments narrowly oblong below, terete above, with a large apical verrucose swelling, densely ciliate; anthers ovate, c. 1.8 mm long, white-apiculate. Ovary glabrous; style pilose, ±equal to stamens. Cocci c. 9 mm high, erostrate.
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