Low compact to erect rounded shrub, 0.3-1.0 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 1.5-4 cm long, 2-9 mm wide; margins recurved, usually long-ciliate; upper surface sparsely villous; lower surface loosely to sparsely villous. Conflorescence terminal, simple, erect to decurved, subsecund-umbelloid, usually 5-8-flowered; floral rachis 0.5-1 mm long, sparsely villous. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth deep yellow becoming orange; style yellow becoming brick red with age. Perianth loosely pilose outside, bearded inside in throat; tepals with a median rib. Pistil 5-6 (-7) mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style loosely tomentose, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, 8-12 mm long, tomentose.
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