Compact shrub to 1 m high, glabrous except for flowers. Branchlets densely verrucose. Leaves congested near stem apices, obovate to oblanceolate, strongly concave when dry, 4–25 mm long, 2.2–8 mm wide; apex obtuse to rounded, strongly mucronate, often recurved. Flowers usually solitary; peduncle 1–3 mm long; pedicel 2–5 mm long, glandular-verrucose. Sepals semiorbicular, c. 0.7 mm high, 1.2 mm wide, fleshy in centre. Petals elliptic-oblong to obovate, 5–8 mm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, cream or tinged pink, papillose adaxially, abaxially glabrous with scattered verrucose glands towards apex. Stamens: filaments eciliate or sparsely ciliate with short, stiff bristles, epilose or almost so at apex; anthers blunt. Cocci erect, 5–7 mm long, prominently rostrate.
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