Dense evergreen shrub up to c. 1 m high; stems prostrate or decumbent and often quite stout near base; young shoots with scattered deciduous hairs, becoming rigid, dark and reddish. Lvs in fascicles or on short shoots scattered along branches; petiole 0-3 mm long; blade ± obovate to elliptic, 5-10-(14) × 2-4-(6) mm, somewhat thick and coriaceous, obtuse to shallowly emarginate, cuneate, glabrous, dark green, and glossy above but becoming ± wrinkled when dry, very finely tomentose below and appearing glaucous-white; margins slightly recurved; stipules linear-lanceolate, glabrous or glabrate except on margins. Fls scattered along branches, solitary or occasionally paired, almost sessile. Sepals 1.3-2 mm long, triangular, with scattered, fine, white hairs; apex acute. Petals patent, 3-5 mm diam., orbicular or suborbicular, white. Fr. broadly oblong-obovate or depressed globose, 6-11 mm diam., deep rose or crimson, sometimes drying ± orange-red.