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Erect shrub, up to 1.5 m high. Branches ascending, flexuous, puberulous, glabrescent. Leaves 4-nate, erect to spreading, overlapping; blade linear, ± 5 mm long, grooved, blunt tipped; erect or subspreading, imbricate, bluntish, sulcate, glabrous or hairy, dry or the younger subviscid, 3-6 mm long. Flowers: in terminal clusters of 3 or 4, pink or pale rosy spikes at tips of long flexuous branches; pedicels viscid, pubescent, 2-4 mm long; bracts 3, approximate or remote, linear, sticky (viscid) pubescent, 2 mm long; anthers with crested appendages, included, > 0.7 mm long; style included; stigma capitate; ovary densely hirsute; calyx narrowly ovate, 2-3 mm long, glabrous or hairy, coloured, viscid; corolla bell-to urn-shaped with slightly constricted mouth, 4.7-7.8 mm long, viscid, glabrous, pink or whitish; Nov.-Jun.
Erect shrub, 0.6-1.5 m high. Leaves 4-nate, erect to spreading, imbricate, 3.1-6.0 mm long, linear, obtuse, sulcate; glabrous or hairy, younger subviscid. Flowers in terminal clusters, 3-or 4-nate, pink or pale rosy. Calyx sepals 5-7 mm long, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, glabrous, viscid or hairy, coloured, sticky. Corolla 4.7-7.9 mm long, campanulate to urceolate, sticky, glabrous, pink or whitish; lobes well spreading, large, from 1/3-2/5 length of tube, rounded. Anthers dorsifixed at base, > 0.7 mm long, semi-ovate, obtuse, glabrous; appendages crested; pore ± 7/8 length of theca. Ovary densely hirsute; style included; stigma capitate. Flowering time (Nov.-)Mar.-June.
