Low mounded shrub 0.3-1.0 m tall. Leaves entire, linear to subterete, 0.8-2 cm long, 1-3 mm wide; margins angularly and tightly revolute; upper surface longitudinally ridged, smooth; lower surface enclosed including midvein, 1-grooved. Conflorescence axillary and cauline, usually simple, spreading, a loose 1-4 (-12?)-flowered cluster, opening uncertain; floral rachis 1-2 (-4) mm long, villous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth pale orange to bright red, with limb green or yellow to red; style pale to reddish pink with a green tip. Perianth subsericeous to loosely so (biramous hairs) outside, sometimes also with short simple glandular hairs, bearded inside; tepals remaining coherent. Pistil 19.5-28 mm long; ovary subsessile, villous; style loosely villous at base (biramous hairs), these becoming sparse or absent above, usually also short erect hairs in apical third; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicle ovoid, 9.5-14 mm long, sparsely villous.
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