Low spreading shrub 0.2-1.0 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 1-3 (-4) cm long, 1.5-5 (-10) mm wide; margins shortly recurved, often ciliate; upper surface loosely villous, smooth; lower surface loosely villous or rarely glabrous. Conflorescence terminal, usually simple, erect to decurved, dense, 6-8-flowered, umbelloid, subsecund, subsynchronous; floral rachis 1-3 mm long, villous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style cream in bud (limb greenish), ageing to pink or red. Perianth glabrous outside, bearded inside; tepals with a prominent median ridge. Pistil 4-6 mm long; ovary shortly stipitate, villous; style sparsely tomentose, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, 12-14 mm long, sparsely villous.
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