Low spreading shrub 0.6-1.5 m high; branches often secund. Leaves entire, linear, 3.5-16 cm long, 1.2-2.5 (-3.5) mm wide; margins smoothly revolute; upper surface sericeous, becoming glabrous and granulose; lower surface mostly or wholly enclosed, sometimes including midvein and then 1-or 2-grooved, or exposed and sericeous on broader leaves. Conflorescence axillary and cauline, simple or few-branched; unit conflorescence decurved, a subsecund umbelloid cluster, 3-8-flowered, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.5-6 mm long, tomentose. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style red to orange or rarely yellow. Perianth subsericeous to sparsely so outside, sometimes tomentose on limb; inner surface loosely villous to openly pilose; tepals independently recoiled. Pistil 20-23 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style glabrous except for simple hairs and papillae in apical c. 2 mm; pollen-presenter very oblique to lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid or narrowly ellipsoidal, 10-14 mm long, villous, longitudinally ridged.
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