Much-branched shrub up to 3 m. tall; branches spreading to divaricate; branchlets long, slender, often drooping, pubescent at tips. Lvs of juveniles up to 1 cm. long, linear, acute to acuminate, entire to irregularly toothed or lobed. Lvs of adults mostly fascicled on short arrested branchlets, linear to narrow-obovate, subacute to obtuse, 10-15 × 1-3 mm., coriac. Fls solitary, terminal on arrested branchlets or on long branchlets. Sepals lanceolate, acuminate, pale, ciliate; petals 5-8 mm. long, very dark red. Capsules subglobose to ovoid, 4-5 mm. long; valves granulate to smooth; seeds 2-5, rarely more.

2n = 24