Flowers pink, solitary, axillary or in terminal or axillary racemes; peduncle up to 5·5 cm. long.
Epicalyx of 8–10 bracts; bracts 4–10 mm. long, filiform to narrowly linear, setulose.
Seeds 2·5 × 1·5 mm., subreniform, with short scattered hairs or nearly glabrous.
Staminal tube 10–12 mm. long; free parts of filaments 0·5 mm. long.
Calyx up to 12 mm. long, 5-lobed, hispid; lobes 8–12 × 4–7 mm.
Capsule 1·5 cm. in diam., with very prominent angles, hispid.
Petals up to 25 mm. long, narrowly obovate, pubescent.
Erect perennial herb or shrublet; stems patent-setose.
Style-branches 3 mm. long.