Spreading shrub 0.5-2 m tall. Branchlets terete, subsericeous to tomentose. Leaves linear, 2.5-9 cm long, 0.7-1.5 mm wide, rigid, pungent; margins angularly revolute; lower surface mostly or wholly enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescences axillary or cauline, decurved, shortly pedunculate, broadly secund, many-flowered; floral rachis 20-50 mm long. Flowers acroscopic; pedicels 3.5-5.5 mm long. Flower colour: perianth red with limb paler; style red or reddish pink with green to yellow tip. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside (denser and to subvillous on limb), bearded inside. Pistil 8-10 mm long; ovary glabrous; style dorsally exposed but not exserted before release of style-end, afterwards nearly straight, scarcely exceeding tepals, glabrous except for scattered hairs and papillae in apical 2-4 mm; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle narrowly ovoid-ellipsoidal, 13.5-17 mm long, glabrous, smooth.
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