Shrub c. 50 cm high. Branchlets smooth, dark-coloured to black, without decurrent leaf bases, minutely pilose when young. Leaves narrowly obovoid to clavate, 1.5–3 mm long, rounded at apex, flat adaxially, sparsely glandular-punctate, glabrous. Stipules absent. Flowers terminal, solitary, sessile or with puberulous pedicel to 2 mm long. Sepals ±glabrous, from ovate and c. 2 mm long to basally ovate but with a semiterete fleshy foliaceous apex and in all to 3 mm long. Petals narrowly ovate, c. 6 mm long, white with broad reddish brown abaxial medial strip, puberulous adaxially and abaxially towards margins. Stamens free; filaments linear-attenuate, densely pilose; anthers c. 1 mm long with broad reddish region on back, minutely white-apiculate. Style terete, pilose towards base. Cocci c. 1.5–2 mm high; apex obtuse and minutely pilose, not apiculate.
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