Dense spreading shrub, 1-2 m high, to 3 m wide. Branchlets angular or terete, densely tomentose-pubescent (short ascending-spreading hairs). Leaves mostly entire, oblong-linear to very narrowly obovate or-elliptic, usually a few with 2 or 3 lobes 1.5-3 (-3.5) cm long, 1.2-4 (-5.5) mm wide, obtuse, mucronate; upper surface smooth or obscurely pitted, glabrous or with a few ±appressed hairs; margins shortly to strongly revolute; lower surface sometimes obscured except midvein, subsericeous. Conflorescence decurved or deflexed at base, secund to loosely subcylindrical, mostly 8-20-flowered, basipetal; rachis 7-17 mm long, openly subsericeous. Flower colour: perianth bright red with creamy white limb; style red with green tip. Perianth glabrous outside, sometimes a very few appressed hairs on limb only, openly tomentose-pubescent inside. Pistil 20-24 mm long. Follicles obloid-acuminate, 12-13 mm long, with an obscure slanting ridge at base, rugulose to almost smooth.
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