Low spreading to erect shrub to 0.5 m high. Leaves linear, 1-4 cm long, 0.8-1.5 mm wide; margins smoothly and tightly revolute; upper surface soon glabrous, faintly granulose; lower surface mostly or wholly enclosed including midvein, 1-grooved, with appressed hairs. Conflorescence axillary, simple, spreading, 1-3-flowered, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.2-0.5 mm long, tomentose. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth red to rusty red; style red or rarely cream with a red tip. Perianth villous outside, bearded inside; tepals independently recoiled. Pistil 17.5-19 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style glabrous except for short hairs in apical 3 mm; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 6-10 mm long, villous.
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