Shrub, ± 100 mm tall, internodes ochre to pale grey. Leaves awl-shaped, 14 x ± 3 mm, with a recurved whitish tip, old leaves persisting, surface rough. Flowers solitary, ± 14 mm diam., bracteoles near base of pedicel, petals 3-seriate, 0.5 mm broad, magenta, filamentous staminodes pink, filaments pink. Fruit 5-locular, base funnel-shaped, top with low rims, covering membranes convex with closing rodlets at their outer rim, closing body a small hook, expanding keels not touching basally, valve wings absent.