It has fleshy ridges between adjacent petioles which sometimes have multicellular secretory hairs called colleters at their base.

The bracts have blunt to pointed tips, boat-shaped bases, and fringed margins.

Its flowers have 5 rough, narrow, oval to triangular sepals that are 1.5–2 by 1–1.5 millimeters, with pointed tips and fringed margins.

Its 5 reddish-violet petals are fused at the base forming a 2–3 millimeter long tubes that are partially covered in fine soft hairs in the inside.

The corona has fleshy oval to triangular feet that are fused with base of the petals and have thread-like lobes that are 2 millimeters long and curved toward the pistil.

The pistils have 1 millimeter long, hairless styles shaped like thin tapering cylinders.