Shrub to 40 cm high. Branchlets ±terete, smooth, minutely stellate (rarely glabrous). Leaves ovate to broadly ovate or subcordate, 3–5 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, flat or with recurved margins, entire, acute to rounded, leathery, minutely stellate-scabridulous or glabrous. Inflorescence terminal, 3–10 flowered; pedicels thick, (2–) 3–4 mm long. Calyx lobes deltate, c. 0.5 mm long, thick, glabrous. Petals spreading, narrowly obovate, c. 4 mm long, white tinged with pink, glabrous. Stamens equal to petals; anthers pink. Gynophore shortly cylindrical, c. 1 mm high. Carpels 5; ovary subspherical, c. 1 mm high, glabrous. Cocci c. 4 mm high, finely corrugate; apex rounded and apiculate on outer angle.