Low procumbent shrub 0.3-0.6 m tall. Leaves entire, linear to subterete, (1.5-) 2.5-7 cm long, (0.5-) 1-2.5 mm wide; margins smoothly or angularly revolute; upper surface granulose to scabrid, or rarely smooth, with faint longitudinal ridges; lower surface usually completely enclosed including midvein, usually 1-grooved, rarely slightly exposed and sericeous. Conflorescence axillary or cauline, ±spreading, simple, 1-4-flowered, opening uncertain; floral rachis c. 1 mm long, villous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth red with an orange limb; style red with a green tip. Perianth sparsely sericeous to almost glabrous outside, rarely also with short erect hairs, bearded inside; tepals remaining coherent. Pistil 23-24 mm long; ovary subsessile, villous; style villous at base, sparser above, usually with erect simple hairs in apical third; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, c. 12 mm long, sparsely villous.
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