Woody perennial 30–60 cm high. Branchlets terete, slender, minutely and sparsely stellate-hairy. Leaves shortly cordate-obcuneate to ovate-obcuneate to ovate or oblong, (3–) 5–17 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, entire, recurved on margin, truncate and mucronate to acutely bilobed or retuse, chartaceous, glabrous, smooth to minutely scabrid adaxially. Inflorescence a terminal cyme of (2–) 4–10 (–16) flowers; pedicels slender, 4–10 mm long. Calyx lobes deltate, c. 0.5 mm high, sparsely stellate. Petals spreading, narrowly elliptic, 3.5–5 mm long, pink towards apex, glabrous. Stamens ±equal to petals; anthers pink. Gynophore cylindrical, c. 0.5 mm long. Carpels 2–4; ovary c. 1 mm high, glabrous. Cocci erect, obovoid, 4 mm high; apex rounded and shortly rostrate on outer angle.
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