Shrub 0.5-2 (-3) m tall. Branchlets terete, subvillous. Leaves narrowly oblong-elliptic to-obovate, (2-) 4-9 cm long, 4-10 mm wide; upper surface with midvein, intramarginal and usually the lateral veins evident; margins flat to loosely revolute; lower surface villous. Conflorescence usually terminal and decurved, pedunculate (peduncle 5-25 mm long), a 2-4 (-6)-flowered cluster; floral rachis 3-6 (-25) mm long. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth orange-pink to bright red in apical half, mid-green below; style greyish pink. Perianth open-subsericeous outside (often also minute erect hairs), bearded inside. Pistil 10-16 mm long; style gently incurved to straight, pubescent in apical half; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ellipsoidal to apically truncate, (10?-) 17-18 mm long, faintly colliculose and with 1 or 2 faint ridges on either side.
Grows in open gully shrub associations and dry sclerophyll forest, in rocky situations on granite, dacite or trachyte.
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