Erect open shrub 1.5 m high. Leaves spreading to ascending, entire, oblong-elliptic or very slightly obovate, 5-18 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, obtuse with a short recurved mucro, leathery; upper surface densely granulate with scattered dark pits, with midvein evident to prominent; margins ±smoothly revolute about obscure longitudinal vein on each side; lower surface partly exposed, subsericeous. Conflorescence terminal on short lateral branchlet or sometimes in upper axil, almost sessile, 2-4-flowered; rachis c. 1 mm long, tomentose. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style scarlet; limb of bud sometimes yellowish. Perianth glabrous outside, lightly bearded inside to about halfway above and below level of ovary, sparsely sericeous above beard, glabrous below; tepals shortly recurved in 2 lateral pairs after anthesis. Pistil 14-16 mm long; stipe 1-1.5 mm long; style exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral to very oblique. Follicles erect but ±transverse on stipe, ovoid, 12-15 mm long, 6-7 mm wide, apically attenuate, somewhat distended at base, colliculose, glabrous.
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