Low mounded shrub 0.3-0.6 (-1.0) m tall. Leaves entire, linear-subterete, dipleural with a submarginal groove along each side, 2.5-5 cm long, 0.5-0.7 mm wide; margins obscure, tightly revolute against prominent abaxial midrib; upper surface subsericeous becoming glabrous and granulose; lower surface obscure except for midrib. Conflorescence axillary, simple, erect, 1-4-flowered cluster, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.5-1 mm long, tomentose. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style red to orange-red. Perianth villous to subsericeous outside, bearded inside; tepals with a median ridge. Pistil 7.5-8.5 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style openly pubescent to almost glabrous, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, c. 10 mm long, sparsely villous.
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