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Rigidly branched, evergreen shrub 1-5 m high. Leaves up to 45 x 7 mm, 1-nerved, coriaceous, mostly in fascicles on abbreviated short shoots without internodes. Flowers dull red. Calyx lobes about 4 x 2.5 mm, puberulous. Petals erect, oblong-elliptic, about 15 x 10 mm, puberulous outside. Stamens up to 20 mm long, far-exserted. Capsules up to 40 mm diam., long-persistent on the plant, at first suffused with carmine, becoming straw-coloured and later silvery grey, deeply 4-lobed, with narrow, laterally compressed, wing-like locules.
A shrub. It grows 5 m tall. The leaves are leathery and in tufts on short shoots. They are broadly sword shaped. The flowers occur singly in the axils of leaves. They are dull red. The fruit is an inflated papery capsule.
Rigid, evergreen shrub, up to 5 m tall. Leaves leathery, oblanceolate, tufted on short shoots. Flowers solitary and axillary, dull red. Fruit an inflated, papery capsule pink turning straw-coloured.
Rigid shrub to 5 m. Leaves leathery, oblanceolate, tufted on short shoots. Flowers solitary and axillary, dull red. Capsules inflated, papery.
