Much-branched shrub to 0.5 m high. Branches minutely puberulous, grey to black with age. Leaves dense, semiterete, thick, c. 3 mm long, obtuse, with brown to black apiculum. Stipular excrescences black. Flowers terminal, solitary; pedicel 1–2 mm long, glabrous. Sepals ovate, 1.5 mm long, acute, brown-apiculate, glabrous. Petals narrowly elliptic, c. 10 mm long, spreading distally, connate towards base and fused to the glabrous united portion of the filaments into a narrow tube, white to pale pink, puberulous adaxially and towards margins abaxially. Stamens: filaments with free portion woolly-pilose except towards tip; anthers broadly oblong, 0.6 mm long, white-apiculate. Style terete, pilose. Cocci c. 3 mm high, minutely rostrate.
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