Low spreading shrub 0.3-0.5 m high. Leaves entire, sublinear to oblong-elliptic or narrowly obovate, 1-5 cm long, (0.6-) 1-4 (-6.5) mm wide; margins recurved to shortly revolute; upper surface hairy, later scabrous; lower surface partly exposed, loosely subvillous or with an open indumentum of ascending to spreading hairs. Conflorescence axillary or terminal, usually simple, erect to decurved, few-flowered, subumbelloid, sometimes subsecund, opening uncertain; floral rachis 1-2 mm long, tomentose. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth red with an orange limb; style lime-green. Perianth loosely tomentose outside (denser on limb) with mixed biramous and simple glandular hairs, bearded inside; tepals lacking median ridge. Pistil 7-9 mm long; ovary tomentose, subsessile to shortly stipitate; style pubescent, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, 13-16 mm long, pubescent.
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