Shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets glabrous or sparsely puberulous. Leaves crowded, erect or spreading, from semiterete, thick, blunt and 3–5 mm long, to slender, acute and to 12 mm long, entirely glabrous or sparsely ciliate on margins. Stipular excrescences minute. Flowers terminal, solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3; pedicels glabrous, turbinate and 1–2 mm long, or slender and c. 8 mm long. Sepals deltate to broadly ovate, c. 1.5 mm long. Petals narrowly elliptic, 6–12 mm long, pink to mauve with a dark central stripe, puberulous adaxially and towards margin abaxially. Stamens: filaments fused and glabrous in lower half, densely villous above; anthers c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous. Style swollen below, somewhat pilose. Cocci apiculate.
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