Low shrub to 1 m high. Leaves linear-subterete to narrowly elliptic, 0.5-3 cm long, 1-3 (-6) mm wide, rarely a few clustered together; margins smoothly revolute or recurved; upper surface smooth to granulose; lower surface enclosed and 1-grooved, or exposed and glabrous or sublanate. Unit conflorescence subumbelloid or few-flowered, basipetal. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style (hairs) white to cream-yellow; style-end bright yellow or orange, deepening to red after anthesis. Perianth villous outside and inside. Pistil 7-10 mm long, villous (less so ventrally on style); style-end obliquely clavate, densely papillose dorsally and also ventrally below base of pollen-presenter; pollen-presenter lateral, round to elliptic, flat to slightly convex, with a prominent narrowly conical stigma; distal edge of pollen-presenter narrowly but distinctly overtopped by a slight apical extension of papillose style-end. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal to slightly-obovoid, c. 13 mm long, pubescent with loose villous overlay, faintly ridged.
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