Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets reddish, puberulous between glabrous decurrent leaf bases. Leaves congested, narrowly cuneate, flattened, 7–13 mm long, recurved on margins, obcordate, minutely glandular-apiculate, firmly chartaceous, glabrous, smooth. Stipules resinous. Flowers terminal, solitary; pedicel c. 2.5 mm long, glabrous, fleshy. Sepals orbicular, c. 1.5 mm long, coriaceous, glabrous. Petals narrowly ovate, c. 5 mm long, firm, with thickened midrib, cream to very pale pink, sparsely puberulous adaxially and towards margins abaxially. Stamens: filaments connate at base and adnate to petals, narrowly oblong-attenuate, long-ciliate; anthers suborbicular, c. 0.6 mm long, with minute, reddish apiculum. Style terete, pilose in lower half. Fruit not seen.
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