Spreading shrub to 30 cm high. Stems divaricately branched; branchlets ±terete, slender, smooth, stellate-puberulous. Leaves shortly petiolate, suborbicular to transversely oblong (saddle-shaped), 1–3.5 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, cordate at base, entire, recurved, somewhat leathery, scabrous adaxially, glabrous abaxially. Flowers 1–3 in terminal sessile cymes; pedicels 2–4 mm long, slender, reddish. Calyx lobes deltate, c. 0.3 mm long. Petals spreading, narrowly elliptic, c. 3 mm long, pink, more pronounced towards apex, glabrous. Stamens ±equal to petals; anthers pale yellow, rarely pink. Gynophore c. 0.5 mm long, red. Carpels 4 or 5; ovary 1 mm high. Cocci spreading, c. 3 mm long, minutely apiculate.
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