Shrub to 1.3 m high. Branchlets smooth, hispidulous. Leaves orbicular to broadly elliptic or obovate, 6–12 mm long, cuneate to cordate at base, entire or crenate and sometimes slightly recurved, ±flat to concave or strongly conduplicate adaxially, rounded and mucronate at apex, coriaceous, smooth, keeled and glandular abaxially, ±glabrous or sparsely hispid. Flowers solitary; peduncle absent or to 2 mm long, hispidulous; pedicel 2–4 mm long, glabrous or hispidulous. Sepals very broadly triangular, 1–1.5 mm high, fleshy with thin margin, glabrous. Petals broadly elliptic, 8–15 mm long, white (to pink), glabrous. Stamens: filaments linear, stiffly ciliate, abruptly narrowed above and sparsely long-pilose; anthers c. 1 mm long, white-apiculate. Style glabrous. Cocci erect, narrowed towards apex, c. 7 mm long; rostrum straight or curved, c. 3 mm long.
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