Compact shrub 30–60 cm high. Branchlets minutely hirsute between broad decurrent leaf bases. Leaves shortly petiolate, semiterete, 3.5–5 × c. 1 mm, obtuse to rounded, glandular-verrucose, glabrous, flattened and channelled adaxially, rounded and verrucose abaxially. Flowers terminal and axillary, solitary; pedicel 1–2 mm long, glabrous; bracteoles triangular. Sepals semicircular, c. 1 mm long, coriaceous, glabrous. Petals thick, slightly imbricate, ovate, c. 4 mm long, inflexed at apex, white. Stamens: filaments erect, fleshy, angular-terete, truncate and shortly apiculate at apex, sparsely glandular-punctate, glabrous or almost so; anthers c. 0.5 mm long, minutely white-apiculate. Style thick, glabrous. Cocci divaricate, c. 3.5 mm long, apiculate.
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