Compact to open-erect shrub 0.7-5 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly elliptic, 1.5-6 cm long, 2-11 mm wide; margins recurved to loosely revolute; upper surface obscurely (rarely coarsely) granulose; lower surface usually exposed, subsericeous. Inflorescences terminal or axillary or cauline, simple to 3-branched, on decurved peduncles; unit conflorescence a subsecund cluster, 6-16 (-20)-flowered, basipetal; floral rachis 2-13 mm long, tomentose. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth pink to reddish at base, cream above; style reddish brown to burgundy with white hairs and a green style-end. Perianth open-tomentose outside, densely bearded inside in lower third. Pistil 21-24 mm long; ovary sessile, white-appressed-villous; style openly white-tomentose, strongly exserted from late bud; pollen-presenter very oblique to almost lateral. Follicle narrowly ellipsoidal, c. 14 mm long, open-tomentose, with longitudinal ridges; style persistent, ±erect.
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