Wiry shrub to 1 m high, glabrous except for flowers, often rhizomatous. Branchlets sparsely glandular-verrucose. Leaves densely clustered near branch apices, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 9–30 mm long, 1.5–7 mm wide, attenuate to cuneate at base, flat to concave, obtuse to acute and shortly mucronate. Flowers solitary; peduncle to 3 mm long; pedicel 3–6 mm long, sparsely verrucose. Sepals semiorbicular. Petals elliptic-oblong, 4–10 mm long, 1.5–4 mm wide, cream tinged with pink, papillose adaxially, glabrous abaxially with a few glands towards apex. Staminal filaments densely ciliate for entire length with dense longer hairs at apex. Cocci erect, 5–8 mm long, bluntly apiculate to shortly rostrate.