Erect, perennial light blue-green shrub, 30–100 cm high, wider than high. Leaves with 1 pair of usually unequal leaflets; petiole narrowly flattened, 3–10 mm long; leaflets very thick and fleshy, not appressed to each other, asymmetrically obovate or broadly obovate, to 30 mm long, 20 mm wide, continuous with petiole and not articulated at base, obtuse or emarginate at apex. Pedicel 4–8 mm long in flower. Sepals 4, 5.5–6.2 mm long, hyaline along margin. Petals 4, obovate, 6–10 mm long, longer than sepals, yellow or orange drying white. Stamens 8; filaments 4–4.5 mm long, winged; wings 1.2–1.5 mm wide, antisepalous stamens with wing apex truncate and entire or crenulate, antipetalous stamens with wing apex oblique and entire, or both with wings truncate and entire. Disc 4-lobed; lobes free, inversely U-shaped, succulent, papillose on margin. Ovary 4-angled, 4-celled, glabrous; stigma capitate, not lobed. Capsule pendent, 4-angled, 4-celled, broadly obovate, 10–18 mm long, rounded at apex; pedicel 7–13 mm long; fruiting style 0.5–1.5 mm long. Seeds 1–4 per cell, 3.5–5 mm long, dark brown with cream-white aril along part of one edge.
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