Spreading shrub, sometimes prostrate or decumbent, 0.5-1.5 m high, to 5 m wide. Branchlets angular or terete, densely to sparsely subsericeous, sometimes with an open indumentum of weakly ascending hairs. Leaves entire, oblong-linear to narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic, 1-3.5 cm long, (1.5-) 2-4 mm wide, obtuse, mucronate; upper surface smooth to obscurely pitted, glabrous or with scattered appressed hairs; margins flat to shortly and smoothly recurved; lower surface sericeous. Conflorescence erect to decurved, a loose semi-secund cluster, mostly 8-12-flowered, weakly basipetal; rachis 8-15 mm long, sparsely subsericeous to tomentose. Flower colour: perianth and style pale to bright pink or red. Perianth glabrous outside or with a few minute appressed hairs on limb, tomentose-pubescent inside. Pistil 20-24 mm long. Follicle obloid-acuminate, 12-13 mm long, faintly ridged at base, rugulose.
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