Undershrub to 1 m high. Branchlets erect, terete, glandular-verrucose, puberulous. Leaves subsessile, elliptic or obovate, sometimes broadly so, 3–10 mm long, rounded at apex, thick and coriaceous, glabrous to minutely puberulous, concave and smooth adaxially, verrucose below. Flowers 1–4; surrounding petaloid bracts equal to or exceeding flowers; pedicels 1–6 mm abaxially, puberulous to pilose, with a pair of basal bracteoles. Sepals elliptic to broadly elliptic, 5–12 mm long, flat, obtuse, yellow to red, glabrous or sometimes puberulous. Petals broadly elliptic, c. 5 mm long, obtuse, cucullate, coriaceous, yellow to red, glabrous or sometimes puberulous. Stamens equal to or shorter than petals; anthers oblong, c. 1.5 mm long. Style glabrous, equal to stamens. Cocci verrucose, blunt.
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