Low spreading to erect shrub, 0.6-2.5 m tall. Branchlets terete, tomentose. Leaves oblong to obovate or narrowly so or sublinear, 1.5-8 cm long, (1.5-) 3-12 mm wide; margins shortly recurved; lower surface sericeous to tomentose. Conflorescences terminal and axillary, deflexed to decurved, pedunculate, cylindrical or subsecund, many-flowered; floral rachis 15-50 mm long. Flowers acroscopic; pedicels 2.5-5 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pinkish red to bright red in basal half, with apical half (or at least the limb) cream, green, yellow or white; style pale green, becoming reddish pink. Perianth villous to subsericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 7.5-10.5 mm long; ovary glabrous; style dorsally exposed but not exserted before release of style-end, afterwards straight to barely incurved, scarcely exceeding tepals, glabrous or with scattered minute hairs; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid to ellipsoidal, 13-17 mm long, glabrous, smooth to rugulose.
In S.A., grows in open dry heath, mixed scrub and eucalypt woodland, often on rocky quartzitic slopes, in loam, clay-loam or lateritic soils.) from basal-suckers and rhizomes.
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