Dense robust shrub 1-1.5 m high. Leaves ±spreading, linear, 1-3 cm long, 1-1.8 mm wide, acute, not or scarcely pungent; upper surface punctate, glabrous, with 2-5 ±prominent longitudinal ribs; margins refracted; lower surface enclosed except midvein, 2-grooved, subsericeous in grooves. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, erect, 2-14-flowered, subsessile; rachis 1-1.5 mm long, subsericeous. Flowers abaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth and style scarlet; pollen-presenter orange. Perianth glabrous outside, bearded inside opposite ovary, glabrous at base, sparsely subsericeous above beard; tepals shortly recurved in 2 lateral pairs after anthesis. Pistil 15-16 mm long; stipe 1.5 mm long; style exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicles oblique to stipe, ovoid, 13 mm long, 6 mm wide, acuminate, somewhat distended at base.
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