Undershrub, minutely tomentose or rarely glabrous. Branchlets without decurrent leaf bases, slightly glandular-verrucose, sometimes with a wax-like scaly surface. Leaves clavate to subterete, fleshy, 2–3 (–6) mm long, rounded at apex and minutely black-apiculate, ± flat adaxially, rounded abaxially, glandular-verrucose, minutely tomentose. Stipules usually absent. Flowers terminal, solitary or in clusters of 2–4; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long. Sepals broadly deltate to sub-orbicular, 1 mm long, minutely black-apiculate, slightly glandular, puberulous. Petals ovate, 4–5.5 mm long, white with pale red central stripe, puberulous. Stamens free; filaments linear-attenuate, sparsely pilose; anthers c. 1 mm long with a prominent white apiculum. Style terete, glabrous. Cocci c. 3.5 mm high, rounded at apex with short apiculum on outer angle.
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