Open shrub 0.3-1 m tall. Leaves entire, elliptic to sub-oblong, often plump, 0.5-2.0 (-3.2) cm long, 2-6 mm wide; margins recurved to shortly revolute; upper surface minutely and densely granulose; lower surface partly exposed, with a dense matted indumentum of wavy to curly hairs. Conflorescence axillary or terminal on short lateral branchlets, simple, erect to decurved, 1-4-flowered; floral rachis 0.2 mm long, subsericeous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style (including style-end) red. Perianth sparsely tomentose outside (densely so on limb), bearded inside near base; tepals with a prominent median ridge. Pistil 6-9 mm long; ovary subsessile, villous; style tomentose, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, c. 13 mm long, pubescent.
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