Undershrub c. 50 cm high. Branchlets greyish, glabrous, without obvious decurrent leaf bases. Leaves fleshy, narrowly elliptic, concave adaxially, 6–10 mm long, obtuse to acute, smooth to slightly verrucose, greyish green when dry. Stipules absent. Flowers terminal, solitary, surrounded by uppermost leaves; pedicel obconical, c. 1.5 mm long. Sepals broadly triangular, 1.5 mm long, fleshy with narrow scarious margin, glabrous. Petals ovate, 6 mm long, white with reddish brown medial strip, sparsely puberulous adaxially, glabrous abaxially. Stamens free; filaments linear-acuminate, densely woolly towards base, reddish pilose distally; anthers 1 mm long, minutely apiculate. Style pilose. Fruit not seen.
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