Low often spreading shrub 0.3-1.0 (-1.8) m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly elliptic to oblanceolate or sublinear, 1-5 (-9) cm long, 1-6 (-10) mm wide; margins smoothly recurved to revolute; upper surface minutely granulose to smooth; lower surface subsericeous or occasionally tomentose, sometimes wholly enclosed by margins and then 1-grooved. Conflorescence axillary or terminal on short lateral branchlets, usually simple, usually erect, 3-10-flowered, subumbelloid and sometimes subsecund, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.2-2 mm long, villous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth red or occasionally orange; style including style-end and pollen-presenter contrasting orange or yellow. Perianth densely tomentose to sparsely subsericeous outside, bearded inside; tepals each with a pronounced median ridge. Pistil 6.5-8.5 mm long; ovary shortly stipitate, villous; style appressed-villous, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 10-14.5 mm long, tomentose.
Grows in open eucalypt woodland, mallee scrub and dense sclerophyll shrubland, in sandy or gravelly sometimes lateritic soils.
Home