Diffuse shrub 0.4-1.2 m tall; branches often arching and subcolumnar. Branchlets angular, villous with spreading hairs. Leaves narrowly ovate to subtriangular, 0.5-3.5 cm long, (1.5-) 3-6 mm wide, (juveniles leaves to 5 cm long and 8 mm wide); upper surface faintly foveolate; margins shortly refracted; lower surface loosely and untidily villous. Conflorescence terminal, usually pedunculate (peduncles pendulous, often conspicuous, wiry, to 5 cm long), sometimes 2-branched; unit conflorescence subglobose. Flowers usually adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style bright to dark red, white inner beard displayed. Perianth outer surface with loose appressed biramous hairs mixed with erect simple glandular hairs and villous on limb; inner surface bearded. Pistil 9.5-15 mm long; style curved, with scattered papilloid hairs over most of its length; pollen-presenter oblique. Follicle obloid, 14-15 mm long.
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