Shrub 0.6-3.0 m tall. Leaves (2-) 4-11 cm long, entire and linear and 1-4 mm wide, and/or sparingly toothed or (usually juvenile leaves only) pinnatifid with 2-11 subtriangular often slightly twisted lobes 1-5 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide; apices not pungent; margins revolute, usually enclosing lower surface except midvein; lower surface bisulcate, silky in grooves or where lamina exposed. Conflorescence erect, axillary or terminal, usually simple, 1-flowered; rachis 0.5-2 mm long. Flower orientation irregular. Flower colour: perianth mid-to deep pink or reddish, with conspicuous white hairs on limb; style red. Perianth glabrous outside below limb, with a villous white beard of biramous hairs at limb apex, bearded inside in lower half. Pistil 23-26 mm long; ovary villous; style villous, sparsely so towards apex. Follicle ovoid and apically attenuate, 12-15 mm long, villous when young, with hairs soon falling.
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