Small compact shrub to 0.4 m tall. Leaves linear, 0.3-1.8 cm long, 0.6-1.2 mm wide; margins smoothly revolute; upper surface glabrous or with scattered hairs, often glaucous; lower surface enclosed except midvein, 2-grooved. Conflorescence axillary and cauline, simple, spreading, 2-5-flowered, sometimes subsecund, opening uncertain; floral rachis 0.5-3 mm long, subvillous. Flowers adaxially oriented. Flower colour: perianth red to yellow-orange, sometimes red with purplish base or yellow limb; style red to yellow or greenish. Perianth sparsely pubescent to subvillous outside, bearded inside; tepals independently recoiled. Pistil 17-22 mm long; ovary stipitate, villous; style open-subvillous in lower third, otherwise glabrous except for minute erect hairs and papillae in apical 2 mm; pollen-presenter very oblique. Follicle narrowly ovoid to narrowly ellipsoidal, 7-10.5 mm long, sparsely villous, faintly ridged.
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