Low spreading shrub 0.3-1.0 m tall. Leaves entire, narrowly oblong to sublinear-subterete, usually plump, 0.2-1.7 cm long, 1.0-2.1 mm wide; margins revolute; upper surface muricate; lower surface completely enclosed including midvein, 1-grooved, sublanate. Conflorescence terminal, simple, erect, subumbelloid, 1-6-flowered, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.5-0.7 mm long, tomentose. Flowers mostly adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style bright orange-red; style-end yellow-green. Perianth pubescent to loosely tomentose outside, glabrous inside near base and bearded about middle, subsericeous above; tepals remaining coherent. Pistil 24-25 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style loosely tomentose to villous, with hairs over most of its length; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle narrowly ellipsoidal or narrowly ovoid, 12.5-14.5 mm long, pubescent to subvillous.
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