Erect shrub to 3 m high. Branches ascending, lepidote. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic to broadly elliptic, c. 15 mm long, rounded at apex, leathery, glabrous and glossy adaxially, grey-lepidote abaxially. Flowers solitary, spreading to nodding; pedicel c. 3 mm long; bracteoles small, lepidote, boat-shaped, appressed to base of calyx. Sepals deltoid to orbicular, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous or sparsely lepidote. Corolla cylindrical, 10–15 mm long, red with short green or yellow lobes, glabrous. Stamens: filaments slender-terete with a flattened, glandular, stellate-hairy scale on adaxial surface towards base, otherwise glabrous; anthers shortly exserted, cordate-ovate. Ovary glabrous; style equal to stamens. Cocci c. 5 mm high, truncate, transversely rugulose, shortly apiculate on outer angle.
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