Shrub to 2 m high, glabrous except for flowers. Branchlets almost smooth. Leaves somewhat clustered near stem apices, elliptic, somewhat falcate, 4–7 cm long, 4–14 mm wide, some-what conduplicate when dry, obtuse to acute, smooth. Flowers solitary or in clusters of 2–4; peduncle thick, to 4 mm long; pedicels thick, 2–4 mm long, glandular-verrucose. Sepals broadly triangular with fleshy centre. Petals elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate, 6–11 mm long, 2.5–3.5 mm wide, white, papillose adaxially, glabrous abaxially, with verrucose glands towards apex. Staminal filaments moderately long-ciliate, sparsely pilose at apex. Cocci erect, 7–9 mm long, prominently rostrate.