Erect to spreading shrub 0.4-3 m tall, rarely decumbent to prostrate. Leaves linear or narrowly to broadly elliptic or obovate, 5-15 cm long, 1.5-20 (-40) mm wide; upper surface obscurely punctate; margins recurved to revolute; lower surface subsericeous, occasionally mostly enclosed. Conflorescence usually axillary or occasionally cauline, or rarely terminal on short lateral branchlets, usually decurved, sessile or very shortly pedunculate, a loose irregular to subsecund cluster, 2-16-flowered, opening indeterminate. Flowers abaxially oriented on twisted or retrorse pedicels. Flower colour: perianth and style bright red. Perianth subsericeous to openly tomentose outside, bearded inside. Pistil 21-26 mm long; style gently curved, usually with scattered minute erect hairs near tip; pollen-presenter strongly oblique. Follicle ellipsoidal, 12-16 mm long, colliculose.
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