Erect glabrous shrub to 40 cm high. Branches prominently glandular-verrucose. Leaves sessile, almost imbricate, broadly obcordate-obovate, 9–13 mm long, 8–13 mm wide, conduplicate, coriaceous, smooth adaxially, prominently glandular-verrucose abaxially, tinged red on margins. Flowers solitary; peduncle 1–2 mm long; pedicel 3–4 mm long with 4 caducous bracteoles at base. Sepals semiorbicular, c. 1 mm long, 1.5 mm wide. Petals broadly elliptic, 8–10 mm long, 4–5 mm wide, white (pink in bud). Stamens: filaments flattened, sparsely ciliate, 2.7–4 mm long; anthers c. 1 mm long, with apex biglandular and apiculate. Style c. 1 mm long. Cocci c. 4 mm long, 3.5 mm wide, rounded with acute apex, sparsely glandular, weakly rugose.
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