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Shrub or dwarf shrub, with erect stems, 0.3-0.6 m high. Branches rigid, pubescent, sometimes covered with compound feather-like or woolly hairs. Leaves 4-nate; clustered, needle-like, erect, incurved, overlapping; blade linear to narrowly ovate or oblong, 3-5 mm long, sometimes slightly open-backed, puberulous and ciliate with branched or plumose hairs, becoming glabrous with age. Flowers: 4-nate; in clusters at tips of branches; pedicels 2-3 mm long, hairy; bracts 3, with long soft hairs, nearly as large as calyx; anthers just visible above corolla tube, dark-coloured, ± 1 mm long, aristate or subulate; style subexserted; stigma capitate; ovary with short, curly, white, flat hairs; calyx ovate, ± 2 mm long, sticky, lobes obtuse, villous, glandular-ciliate; corolla red, pink to purple, or whitish, bell-, egg-or cup-shaped, coarsely pubescent; Oct.-Dec.
Erect or dwarf shrub, 0.3-0.6 m high. Leaves imbricate, blade needle-like or oblong, 3-5 mm long, slightly open-backed, ciliate with branched or plumose hairs. Flowers 4-nate; clustered at tips of branches. Calyx sepals ovate, nearly ± 2 mm long, obtuse, subfoliaceous, viscid, villous, glandular-ciliate; lobes obtuse. Corolla ± 4.2 mm long, red, pink, purple or whitish, broadly ovate or ovate-cyathiform, coarsely pubescent; lobes suberect, rounded, ± 1 mm long. Filaments slender, straight; anthers just visible above corolla tube, ± 1 mm long, dorsifixed close to base, obovate-oblong, obtuse, scaberulous, dark-coloured, aristate; appendages subulate, rough, less than 1/2 length of theca. Ovary with short, curly, white, flat hairs; style subexserted; stigma capitate. Flowering time Oct.-Dec.
