Erect and open to low and dense shrub, 0.4-1.8 m tall. Leaves entire, oblong-elliptic to broadly elliptic or-linear, usually 20-45 (-60) mm long, 4-18 mm wide; margins recurved to loosely revolute; upper surface granulose; lower surface tomentose. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, usually simple, usually decurved, a short subsecund 2-8-flowered cluster, acropetal; floral rachis 1-5 mm long, pubescent. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth usually red in basal half, shading to yellow above, or sometimes red and white, apricot and white, or rarely all yellow; style green at base, shading to pink or cherry red above with a green tip, rarely light green throughout. Perianth basally dilated, pubescent to tomentose outside, bearded inside in lower third. Pistil 18-25 mm long; ovary sessile, villous; style dorsally villous in lower half, glabrescent above, scarcely exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ellipsoidal, 14-16 mm long, tomentose, longitudinally ridged.
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