Shrub 1–2 m high. Branchlets sparsely glandular-verrucose, ± puberulous all round, without obvious decurrent leaf bases. Leaves shortly petiolate; lamina either fleshy or coriaceous and flat but with slightly recurved margin, 3–8 mm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous. Stipules small, black, acicular to globular. Flowers terminal, solitary or in clusters of 2–4; pedicels puberulous, 2–3 mm long. Sepals obtusely triangular, c. 1 mm long, fleshy, ± glabrous. Petals oblong-elliptic, 4–5 mm long, white, puberulous on both sides except for the thick, glabrous midrib. Stamens free; filaments linear-acuminate, woolly-ciliate; anthers c. 0.8 mm long, shortly white-apiculate. Style terete, glabrous. Cocci truncate, variably rostrate.
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