Shrub to 1 m high. Branchlets sparsely glandular-verrucose, minutely pilose in grooves, erupting irregularly in corky excrescences. Leaves subsessile, narrowly obovoid, 2–3 mm long, rounded at apex with a sunken dark-coloured terminal gland, fleshy, glabrous, flat and channelled adaxially, rounded abaxially. Stipules globular, black. Flowers terminal, mostly solitary; pedicel 0.5–1 mm long. Sepals broadly triangular, c. 1 mm long, fleshy, glabrous. Petals elliptic, c. 6 mm long, white with thickened pink midrib, sparsely puberulous adaxially, glabrous abaxially. Stamens free; filaments narrowly oblong with subulate apex, woolly-ciliate, pilose towards apex; anthers c. 0.6 mm long, minutely white-apiculate. Style terete, glabrous. Fruit not seen.
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