Low dense or sometimes prostrate shrub 0.2-0.8 m tall. Leaves elliptic to oblong-elliptic or narrowly so or ovate, 0.6-3.0 (-6.0) cm long, 1.5-10 mm wide; margins smoothly recurved or revolute; upper surface granulose to smooth and glossy; lower surface with a dense matted indumentum of wavy to curled hairs. Conflorescence terminal and axillary, simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence erect, umbelloid-subsecund, 2-6 (-8)-flowered, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.5-1 mm long, villous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style red to dull or bright orange. Perianth tomentose outside, bearded inside; tepals with a faint median ridge. Pistil 11-15.5 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style tomentose, weakly exserted before release of style-end, ±erect and exceeding perianth by > 3 mm after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, c. 15 mm long, glabrous, faintly ribbed.
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