Glabrous shrub to 2 m high; branches slender. Leaves sessile, simple, linear to narrowly elliptic, 10–15 mm long, acute, minutely crenulate. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel clavate, c. 6 mm long. Sepals narrowly triangular, 2–3 mm long, acuminate, glabrous, red. Petals elliptic, c. 7 mm long, subterminally apiculate, glabrous, pale red or pale mauve. Stamens: filaments terete, c. 2.5 mm long, sparsely ciliate, glandular-verrucose towards apex; anthers minutely apiculate. Ovary glabrous; style cylindrical, c. 1 mm long, sparsely pilose; stigma rounded, continuous with style.
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