Shrub woody, bushy, erect, 1.0-1.5(-2.0)[-3.0] m tall, single-stemmed. Branches: main branches up to 400 mm long, sometimes topped with numerous vegetative secondary branches or just flowering secondary branches; secondary branches numerous, 100-160 mm long, with 1 or 2 tertiary branches 30-60 mm lone; stem with dense, short, simple hairs and spreading to reflexed, stouter, longer hairs admixed, these mostly shortly plumose mainly towards base of hair and sometimes with longer forked tips; internodes 2-5 mm long. Leaves 4-nate, suberect to spreading but curved upwards, occasionally reflexed at base of secondary branches, lanceolate, ± 7 x 1 mm, with rounded margins, partially open-backed with sulcus open at base, with fine, short, simple hairs and a few, long, stouter, fork-tipped hairs, these sometimes shortly plumose at base; petiole ± 1 mm long, with sparse, short, simple hairs; on margins a few shortly stalked glands. Inflorescence: flowers 4-nate in 2-5 whorls, terminal on secondary branches, rarely tertiary branches, lower 1 or 2 whorls with internodes, upper whorls umbel-like; pedicel 4-6 mm long, with dense, fine, simple hairs and sparse, long, stout, spreading, plumose hairs admixed, red; bract leaf-like and on branch in lower whorls of inflorescence to partially recaulescent in mid position in upper whorls; bracteoles 2, lanceolate, ± 3 x 0.4 mm, green, base pinkish, placed ± 2/3 way up pedicel, indumentum like bract. Calyx 4-partite; segments lanceolate, ± 2.5-3.0 x 0.5 mm, finely hairy plus long, stout hairs on margins, the upper terminally forked, the lower also shortly plumose towards base, acute or attenuated into a long, plumose seta; upper half of segments green, lower pink, sulcus ± 1/2 length of segment. Corolla 4-lobed, globose-urceolate, ± 4 x 3.5 mm, finely puberulous, pink; lobes suberect, ± 0.8 x 1.5 mm, rounded, entire. Stamens 8, manifest; filaments ± 3 mm long, straight; anthers basifixed, bilobed, oblong in front view, appendiculate, orange-brown; thecae erect adpressed, oblong, ± 1.0-1.3 x 0.5 mm in lateral view, aculeate, pore ± 1/2 length of theca, appendages ± 0.7 mm long, ± ovate-elliptic, flattened, irregularly shallowly and deeply toothed, yellow; pollen in tetrads. Ovary 4-locular, depressed globose-obovoid, emarginate, ± 1.2 x 1.5 mm, covered with simple, short hairs, with large nectaries around base; ovules ± 50 per locule, spreading from bulbous placenta on upper 2/3 of columella; style ± 4 mm long, exserted; stigma capitate. Fruit a dehiscent capsule, ± 1.8 x 2.3 mm, valves spreading to 45° but curved-erect, split to base, septa only on valves. Seeds ellipsoid-ovoid, ± 0.5 x 0.25 mm, sometimes angled, very shallowly alveolate, yellow-brown to brown; testa cells oblong, ± 50-100 x 25-35 urn, anticlinal walls undulate to irregularly slightly jigsawed, slightly thickened, periclinal walls finely pitted.
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