Shrub to 50 cm high. Branchlets glabrous with prominent green decurrent leaf bases and brown intermediate strips that soon become corky. Leaves ellipsoid to clavate, 2–3 mm long, obtuse to rounded at tip, glandular-verrucose, flattened and channelled adaxially, glabrous. Stipules absent. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together; pedicels 1–4 mm long, glabrous. Sepals ovate to suborbicular, c. 1.5 mm long, glandular, glabrous. Petals elliptic, c. 7 mm long, white, tinged with pink abaxially, puberulous adaxially, glabrous abaxially. Stamens free; filaments linear-attenuate, woolly-ciliate, densely pilose at apex; anthers c. 1 mm long, prominently white-apiculate. Cocci c. 3 mm high, rounded at apex, not apiculate.
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