Juvenile plant a shrub with divaricating and interlacing branches; lvs coriac., 3-20 × 2-5 mm., entire to irregularly toothed or pinnatifid, obovate to narrow-obovate to linear in outline, passing gradually to adult form. Flowering plants with lvs c. 30-50 × 5-10 mm., obovate to narrow-obovate, cuneately narrowed to slender petiole c. 1-2 mm. long, entire to shallowly lobulate. Umbels terminal, 4-10-fld; pedicels c. 1 cm. long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, acute; petals 11/2 times as long as sepals, light red. Capsules subglobose, subcompressed, c. 7 mm. diam., 2-valved; valves woody.

2n = 24