Low domed to open erect shrub 0.2-2 m tall. Leaves linear or elliptic to narrowly ovate or oblanceolate, 1-9 cm long, 0.7-10 mm wide; margins smoothly revolute; upper surface hairy or glabrous, smooth; lower surface exposed or enclosed and then 2-grooved, sericeous. Conflorescence axillary or cauline, rarely terminal, simple, deflexed to spreading, a loose subsecund 2-5-flowered cluster, opening uncertain; floral rachis 2-5 cm long, subsericeous to villous. Flowers acroscopic, lower ones sometimes abaxial. Flower colour: perianth red with a yellow limb, or all yellow; style red or yellow. Perianth loosely to densely subsericeous to apically subvillous, bearded inside above ovary; tepals recoiled independently. Pistil 17-24 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style glabrous except for small erect hairs in apical 2 mm; pollen-presenter very oblique to lateral. Follicle ellipsoidal to obovoid, 11-16 mm long, loosely villous.
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