Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets terete, pilose. Leaves divaricate, narrowly to broadly ovate, lanceolate, or narrowly triangular, 5–12 mm long, 1.5–5 mm wide, truncate to slightly cordate at base, entire, recurved to revolute, obtuse, smooth, sparsely pilose. Flowers 4–10 in a terminal nodding cyme; pedicels 2–5 mm long, sparsely pilose, with 2 linear bracteoles c. 5 mm long at apex. Calyx c. 5 mm long, including narrowly triangular lobes c. 3 mm long, sparsely pilose. Petals erect to spreading, narrowly oblong-elliptic, c. 8 mm long, keeled, yellowish green, sparsely pilose. Stamens ±twice length of petals; filaments dark red (rarely green). Gynophore c. 0.6 mm long, equal in width to ovary. Carpels 5, with minute sterile retuse apex; ovary shortly cylindrical, c. 1 mm high, glabrous. Cocci c. 5.5 mm high, minutely bicornute at outer angle, pilose.
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