Shrub 0.6-2 m high. Leaves entire, narrowly obovate or oblong-elliptic to broadly linear when strongly revolute, 2.5-9 cm long, 5-15 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; upper surface granulose; lower surface sometimes enclosed, felty-tomentose with wavy to curled hairs. Conflorescence erect, terminal or axillary, usually simple, umbelloid or a subsecund 10-14-flowered cluster, opening uncertain; floral rachis 1-2 mm long, villous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth orange-red to scarlet; style-end yellow. Perianth loosely tomentose to villous outside, with an open appressed indumentum inside near dorsal suture and otherwise glabrous or with a very scanty beard in throat; tepals with slight median ridge. Pistil 6-8 mm long; ovary villous, shortly stipitate; style appressed-villous, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid, 12-18 mm long, tomentose, longitudinally ridged.
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