Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets stellate-puberulous when young. Leaves shortly petiolate, slightly upcurved, closely revolute and almost terete, c. 8 mm long, 7–15 mm long, 1 mm wide, entire, acute, leathery, smooth and glabrous adaxially, white stellate-puberulous abaxially. Flowers solitary in upper leaf axils; peduncle c. 1.5 mm long, stellate-puberulous; pedicel c. 2 mm long, fleshy, glabrous, with 4 minute bracteoles at base. Calyx lobes deltate, c. 0.5 mm long, glabrous. Petals spreading, narrowly elliptic, c. 5 mm long, glabrous. Stamens shortly exceeding petals. Gynophore short-cylindrical, c. 0.5 mm high. Carpels 5, narrow, the upper 2/3 forming a long sterile apex; ovary narrowly ovoid, c. 2 mm long, glabrous. Cocci rounded with prominent beak 2–3 mm long.
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