Shrub 0.2-0.8 m high. Leaves narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic or linear, 1-3.5 cm long, 1-9 mm wide; margins shortly recurved to revolute; upper surface villous when young, later glabrous and smooth or very finely granulose; lower surface exposed, felty-pubescent. Unit conflorescence subumbelloid or few-flowered, basipetal. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style (hairs) white to cream; glabrous stylar appendage yellow, deepening to orange and red with age. Perianth villous outside and inside; dorsal tepals overtopping limb. Pistil 9.5-11.5 mm long, villous; style-end with a tongue-shaped, incurved, apically emarginate appendage 2-3 mm long, overtopping pollen-presenter, the appendage basally papillose becoming glabrous in upper half; pollen-presenter lateral, broadly elliptic, slightly concave. Follicle ellipsoidal or ovoid, 8.5-11 mm long, pubescent, ridged along flanks.
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