Divaricately branched undershrub c. 1 m high. Branchlets verrucose. Leaves sessile, slender-clavate, ascending, 10–15 mm long, rounded at apex with a black rounded apiculum, rugulose when dry, minutely tomentose when young.Stipules present when very young, minute, hair-like, reddish brown. Flowers 1–3; pedicels thick, c. 2 mm long, minutely woolly; bracteoles linear, c. 1 mm long, black-apiculate, minutely woolly. Sepals unequal, suborbicular, 4–7 mm long, minutely tomentose, orange-red. Petals narrowly oblong-ovate, c. 20 mm long, orange to red, glabrous. Stamens: filaments exceeding petals, red, with grey to violet indumentum; anthers c. 2.2 mm long, obtuse.
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