Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets smooth when young, sparsely puberulous, becoming corky between glabrous decurrent leaf bases. Leaves slender-clavate, c. 10 mm long, rounded at apex, flat adaxially, slightly glandular-verrucose, glabrous. Stipules absent. Flowers terminal, solitary; pedicel narrowly turbinate, c. 1 mm long, glabrous. Sepals very broadly ovate, c. 1 mm long, glabrous, fleshy with thin margin. Petals elliptic, c. 6 mm long, white with pink tip, puberulous adaxially, puberulous towards margin and glabrous in central glandular medial strip abaxially. Stamens: filaments ⅔ united in a cylindrical tube, pilose; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, very minutely white-apiculate. Style expanded below, densely pilose. Fruit not seen.
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