Low spreading (sometimes prostrate) to erect shrub to 1 m tall. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong-elliptic, 1-4.5 cm long, 0.7-2.0 (-3.3) mm wide; upper surface convex; margins refracted; lower surface usually enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved, sericeous beside midvein when exposed. Conflorescence terminal and many-flowered (usually > 30), often also subterminal-axillary and 2-flowered, erect to decurved, subsessile, dense, broadly secund. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth reddish purple, with white beard on inner surface conspicuously displayed; style pink to reddish mauve. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 10.5-12.5 mm long; style strongly curved near apex, with papilloid hairs on apical 1-2 (-6) mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle obloid-ovoid, 11-12 mm long, glabrous.
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