Undershrub c. 1 m high. Branchlets terete (not channelled), glabrous or sparsely puberulous when young, developing a scaly wax-like surface. Leaves narrowly clavate, slightly falcate, 4–8 mm long, prominently black-apiculate, glandular-verrucose, glabrous (or sparsely and shortly hirsute adaxially). Stipular excrescences prominent. Flowers terminal, solitary or in clusters of 2–4, surrounded by foliage leaves, frequently overtopped by lateral branchlets; pedicels 0.5–1.5 mm long, glabrous. Sepals narrowly triangular to triangular, 2 mm long, fleshy, glabrous, black-apiculate. Petals narrowly oblong, boat-shaped, c. 6 mm long, white to pink, pubescent adaxially and towards margin abaxially. Stamens free; filaments linear-attenuate, woolly towards base, reddish pilose towards apex; anthers 0.8 mm long, shortly white-apiculate. Style terete, glabrous. Cocci c. 4 mm high, prominently rostrate (c. 1.5–2 mm) on outer angle.
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