Erect multistemmed shrub to 60 cm high, suckering from roots. Branchlets pilose, pale green. Leaves narrowly elliptic, incurved, inversely boat-shaped (hollowed abaxially), 9–12 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide, acute, with c. 4 prominent glands on each side of abaxial surface, papillose all over. Stipules minute, black. Flowers terminal, solitary; pedicels c. 0.5 mm long. Sepals suborbicular, 1.5–2 mm long, puberulous. Petals elliptic, 7–10 mm long, white to pale pink, puberulous on both surfaces, sparsely verrucose abaxially on midrib. Stamens 6.5–8 mm long; filaments fused for basal 4–5 mm, pilose in distal half; anthers ovate, c. 1.2 mm long with small glabrous apiculum. Disc obscure. Ovary tomentose; style c. 4 mm long, slightly swollen and pilose on basal ¾; stigma capitate. Fruit not seen.
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