Suffrutex 30-40 cm tall, stems woody, much branched, with grey bark; branchlets finely stellate-tomentose, hairs short, glutinous. Stipules up to 6 mm long, linear-subulate. Leaves shortly petiolate; blade narrowly to broadly oblong-obovate, about 3.5 x 0.7 mm to 30 x 9 mm, finely, densely and shortly stellate-tomentose (hairs somewhat glutinous), rounded or acute at apex, narrowing slightly to a rounded or cuneate base, margin usually entire, midrib and veins prominent beneath, usually 2 arising from base, one on each side of the midrib; petiole 1-4 mm long. Inflorescence of 1-flowered, axillary cymes; peduncle up to 15 mm long, shortly stellate-tomentose, 2-4-bracteate at apex; pedicels 2-3 mm long, stellate-tomentose with slightly longer hairs than on the peduncle. Calyx about 6 mm long, tube ±3.5 mm, lobes ±2.5 mm long, shortly stellate-tomentose without, and lobes with appressed hairs on the inner face, usually with five prominent nerves running from apex of lobes to base. Petals orange-red, oblong to narrowly oblong-spathulate, 7-10 mm long, some narrowly inrolled only on claw, others i n same flower with somewhat infolded margins all the way, no auricles at apex of claw, glabrous on inner face. Stamens with oblanceolate-linear filaments ±4 mm long, glabrous; anthers ±4 mm long, overlapping filament for about 1 mm, ciliate. Ovary very shortly stipitate, ±2.5 mm long, shortly stellate-tomentose, hairs rather longer at apex; styles about 5 mm long. Capsule about 6 mm long, 3 mm diam., shortly and densely stellate-tomentose, eventually shortly horned at sutures, horns about 1.5 mm long.
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