Compact shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets ±terete, glandular-verrucose, stellate-puberulous or stellate-pilose. Leaves elliptic to broadly obovate or suborbicular, 2–11 (–14) mm long, (1.5–) 2–4 (–5.5) mm wide, flat or convex, entire or erose near apex, acute to rounded, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, smooth, glabrous or minutely pilose on margin or midrib. Inflorescence terminal; peduncle (when present) 1–6 mm long; pedicels slender or fleshy, 1.5–5 mm long. Calyx lobes deltate, 0.3–0.6 mm long, fleshy. Petals spreading, narrowly elliptic, 2–4 mm long, white to pink, glabrous. Stamens ±equal to petals; anthers pink or yellow. Gynophore shortly cylindrical, c. 0.5 mm high, red. Carpels 5; ovary subspherical to ±cylindrical, 1–1.8 mm high, glabrous. Cocci obliquely ovoid, 2–4 mm high, minutely apiculate to shortly (1.5 mm) rostrate.
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