Shrub 0.3-1 m high. Leaves linear-subterete to narrowly oblong-elliptic or-oblanceolate, often varying on a plant, 0.3-6 cm long, 0.5-11 mm wide; margins recurved to revolute; upper surface smooth to granulate; lower surface enclosed or exposed and pubescent to sublanate. Unit conflorescence loosely subumbelloid or few-flowered, basipetal. Flowers obscurely abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style (hairs) white to cream; style-end naked, bright yellow becoming orange and then red. Perianth villous inside and outside. Pistil 6.5-8.5 mm long, villous (style less so ventrally); style-end glabrous, subglobose with a flat 'face'; pollen-presenter lateral, elliptic, flat with a prominent conical stigma. Follicle obloid, 8-13 mm long, pubescent with loose villous overlay, granulose.
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