Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets minutely puberulous in grooves between decurrent leaf bases, sparsely glandular, developing black corky excrescences with age. Leaves fleshy, oblong, 3–5 mm long, 1.5–2 mm wide, obtuse, slightly convex and smooth adaxially, prominently glandular-bullate and deeply channelled abaxially. Stipules black. Flowers solitary, axillary, ascending; pedicel 2–3 mm long, glabrous. Sepals ovate, c. 1.5 mm long, fleshy, glabrous, almost smooth or glandular-verrucose. Petals erect, broadly oblong, c. 5 mm long, keeled, white, puberulous adaxially and towards margin abaxially. Stamens free; filaments linear-attenuate, densely woolly; anthers c. 0.6 mm long, prominently white-apiculate. Style long, terete, pilose. Cocci rounded at apex and shortly rostrate on outer angle.
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