Woody perennial 0.3–0.6 m high. Branchlets minutely verrucose, puberulous between prominent, glossy, decurrent leaf bases. Leaves subsessile, acicular, slightly twisted, c. 1 cm long, minutely mucronate, smooth, minutely ciliate otherwise glabrous, channelled adaxially, rounded abaxially. Flowers 1–3 in axil of a terminal leaf, the branch continuing growth after flowering; pedicels 4–7 mm long, glabrous. Sepals broadly and obtusely deltate, 1.5 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Petals imbricate, obovate, c. 6 mm long, pale pink or red. Stamens: filaments narrowly oblong towards base, truncate beneath a very short terete stipe; anti-petalous ones ±terete towards apex, c. 3.3 mm long, sparsely pilose and abruptly apiculate; antisepalous ones flattened towards base, narrowly winged and pilose towards apex, with 2 deep lateral depressions and an adaxial medial ridge; anthers c. 1 mm long. Style slender, glabrous. Cocci c. 6 mm long, shortly and divaricately rostrate.
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