Spreading or rarely prostrate shrub 0.3-2.5 m tall. Leaves entire, oblong-elliptic (or broadly or narrowly so), to almost linear, 1.5-6 cm long, 3-15 (-23) mm wide; margins recurved or revolute; upper surface pubescent to glabrous, granulose or rarely almost smooth; lower surface usually exposed, tomentose to velvety. Conflorescence terminal on short lateral apically decurved branchlets, usually simple, 2-8 (-12)-flowered, subsecund; floral rachis 1-6.5 mm long, tomentose to subvillous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth dull yellow to golden yellow with a sprinkling of white and brown hairs; style red or orange-red with reddish or brownish, rarely white hairs. Perianth basally dilated, deciduous soon after anthesis, sparsely tomentose to villous outside, bearded inside in lower third. Pistil 15-21.5 mm long; ovary sessile, villous; style villous, scarcely exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ellipsoidal, 11-13 mm long, villous, longitudinally ridged.
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