Shrub c. 1 m high, glabrous. Branchlets when young with green glandular-verrucose decurrent leaf bases separated by corky strips. Leaves slender, subterete, 5–10 mm long, obtuse to acute, glandular-verrucose or smooth, channelled but otherwise flat adaxially. Stipules absent. Flowers axillary, solitary, glabrous; pedicel slender-clavate, c. 5 mm long with a few small basal bracteoles. Sepals broadly ovate, c. 1 mm long, fleshy. Petals oblong-elliptic, c. 5 mm long, white with pink medial strip. Stamens free, pyramidally arranged; filaments linear-acuminate; anthers c. 1 mm long, shortly apiculate. Disc broad. Style slender-terete. Cocci c. 3 mm long, apiculate.