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Erect, virgate shrub, up to 2 m high; branches tomentose. Leaves narrow-oblong, acute or mucronate; upper surface pilose; lower surface velutinous, midrib prominent. Inflorescences axillary, 1-flowered; peduncles shorter than leaves; bracts linear-lanceolate. Flowers mauve, pink, purple and white. Calyx acute to acuminate, ferruginous-velutinous. Flowering time May-Dec. Pod rusty-villous.
Willowy to dense and much-branched, resprouting shrub to 1 m (rarely a non-sprouter in marshy habitats). Leaves 1-foliolate, elliptic to suborbicular, thinly silky and sometimes shiny glabrescent above, felted beneath. Flowers dark pink and white, bracts broadly ovate, prominently veined, mucronate.
