Compact shrub to c. 30 cm high; stems with mixed dense, short, curved or curly hairs mostly less than 0.5 mm long, and scattered broad-based, usually antrorse setae to c. 1 mm long, occasionally also with a few reddish gland-tipped hairs. Leaves mostly in whorls of 4–6, narrow-elliptic to obovate, 4–10 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, apex acute or obtuse, mucronate, recurved, margins flat to revolute, surfaces glabrous or with a few short, stiff hairs particularly on midvein and near margins. Inflorescences 1- or 2-flowered; peduncles elongating, 10–30 mm long in mature flowers, hooked, virtually glabrous. Sepals ovate to broad-ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, usually glabrous, deciduous; petals obovate, 6–10 mm long, deep lilac-pink, rarely white, deciduous; ovary usually densely hairy, ovules 4. Fruit cordate, cuneate or broad-obovate, 5–8 mm long; seeds more or less obovoid, 2–3 mm long. Flowers mostly Sep.–Dec.