Low spreading to weakly erect shrub 0.2-0.8 (-1.0) m tall. Branchlets angular, subsericeous. Leaves linear or narrowly elliptic, 1.5-4.5 cm long, 1-3 (-5) mm wide, pungent or not; upper surface smooth, not punctate; margins angularly recurved to refracted; lower surface subsericeous, sometimes enclosed except for midvein. Conflorescence terminal, erect to deflexed, pedunculate (peduncles 3-15 mm long), shortly secund, 5-15-flowered. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style red. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside, bearded inside. Pistil 18-21 mm long; style glabrous except for scattered minute erect hairs in the apical 3-4 mm; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle ovoid-ellipsoidal, 12-14 mm long, smooth to colliculose.
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