Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets terete, glandular-verrucose, variably puberulous. Leaves clavate and obtuse to subterete and acute, c. 11 mm long, glabrous, ± flattened and sometimes narrowly channelled adaxially, rounded and glandular-verrucose abaxially. Stipules prominent, black. Flowers solitary, axillary, nutant; pedicel slender, c. 8 mm long, puberulous. Sepals broadly ovate, c. 2.5 mm long, coriaceous, smooth, minutely puberulous. Petals broadly ovate forming a broadly cylindrical corolla, 7–10 mm long, pale yellow to pale red, puberulous on both surfaces. Stamens free; filaments narrowly oblong-attenuate, densely woolly-ciliate; anthers c. 1.4 mm long, minutely white-apiculate. Style long, terete, sparsely pilose. Fruit not seen.
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