Erect to spreading single-stemmed shrub 2-3.5 m high. Branchlets angular or terete, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs. Leaves entire, oblong to obovate to elliptic or narrowly so, 2-4.5 cm long, 2.5-9 mm wide; upper surface ±smoothly glabrous, not pitted; margins shortly recurved; lower surface sericeous on young leaves, soon becoming sparsely sericeous or glabrous. Conflorescence decurved, secund, mostly 8-12-flowered, weakly acropetal to subsynchronous; rachis 7-15 mm long, with scattered appressed hairs or glabrous. Flower colour: perianth pale to bright red with creamy limb; style red with prominent green apex. Perianth glabrous outside, tomentose-pubescent inside. Pistil 26-27 mm long. Follicles oblong-acuminate, 10-11 mm long, with an obscure slanting ridge at base, rugulose.
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