Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets moderately puberulous all over, without decurrent leaf bases. Leaves ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.5–3 mm long, rounded at apex, fleshy, flat adaxially, rounded abaxially, glabrous. Stipules absent. Flowers terminal, usually solitary; pedicel c. 0.5 mm long, puberulous. Sepals broadly triangular to suborbicular, c. 2.5 mm long, fleshy in centre, narrowed to a green fleshy apex, smooth or slightly glandular, glabrous. Petals ovate, c. 10 mm long, white to pink, densely silky-pubescent on both sides. Stamens: filaments united towards base, attenuate upwards, densely and minutely pilose; anthers c. 1 mm long, shortly white-apiculate. Style terete, sparsely and minutely pilose. Cocci minutely pilose, oblong, c. 4 mm high, narrowed at apex and passing into a stout erect rostrum c. 2 mm long.
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