Erect shrub 1-2.5 m tall. Leaves linear or narrowly oblong, (2.5-) 4-12 cm long, 1-3 mm wide; margins recurved to angularly revolute; upper surface sericeous, becoming glabrous, 7-11-grooved; lower surface scarcely to mostly enclosed except for midvein, if exposed then subsericeous with several ridges. Conflorescence cauline and/or axillary, never terminal, simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence a loose irregular to subsecund 3-12-flowered cluster, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.5-4 mm long, subsericeous to subvillous. Flowers basiscopic. Flower colour: perianth pink to red or yellow; style matching. Perianth subsericeous outside, bearded inside; tepals remaining coherent. Pistil 28-38 mm long; ovary stipitate, appressed-villous; style subsericeous near base, glabrous above except for papillae in apical 1-3 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle oblong ellipsoidal to ovoid, 11-15 mm long, sericeous.
Grows in low woodland or shrubland, often in rocky situations, on laterite, granite or conglomerate.
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