Spreading to erect shrub 1-1.5 m tall. Leaves entire, linear to subulate, 1-3.5 cm long, 0.8-1.4 mm wide; margins angularly revolute; upper surface longitudinally ridged; lower surface enclosed except for midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence terminal or rarely axillary, usually simple, erect or decurved, umbelloid and semi-secund, 2-14-flowered, acropetal; floral rachis 1-4 mm long, subsericeous. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style red. Perianth loosely subsericeous outside, bearded inside; tepals remaining coherent. Pistil 22-28 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style glabrous; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid-ellipsoidal, 15 mm long, sparsely tomentose.
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