Rounded shrub to 60 cm high. Branchlets glandular-verrucose, sparsely puberulous when young; cuticle soon separating as a pale tunic; corky eruptions lacking. Leaves crowded, very shortly petiolate (0.3 mm long), fleshy, subterete, 1.5–2 mm long, obtuse to rounded, glandular-verrucose, glabrous, somewhat flattened adaxially. Stipules extremely minute when young or absent. Flowers terminal, solitary; pedicel 0.5–1 mm long, very sparsely puberulous. Sepals glabrous, irregular in size and shape, from triangular, very fleshy with scarious margins and c. 1 mm long, to semiterete, obtuse, foliaceous and c. 2 mm long. Petals elliptic, c. 2.5 mm long, white, puberulous adaxially, glabrous abaxially. Stamens free; filaments linear-attenuate, ciliate; anthers orbicular, minutely white-apiculate. Ovary sparsely pilose; style short, glabrous. Fruit not seen.
Home