Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets ascending, hispidulous. Leaves crowded, erect, slender, semiterete, c. 10 mm long, acute, ±hispidulous. Stipular excrescences minute. Flowers terminal, solitary or 2 or 3 together; pedicels turbinate and fleshy, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous or hispidulous. Sepals broadly triangular to very broadly ovate, 1 mm long, minutely papillose. Petals narrowly elliptic, 12 mm long, mauve with darker central stripe, puberulous adaxially and towards margin abaxially. Stamens: filaments glabrous and fused in lower half, densely villous distally; anthers c. 2 mm long, pilose at apex. Style swollen towards base, pilose. Cocci blunt.
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