Low shrubs, evergreen; young shoots densely coarsely brown strigose, hairs flat. Leaves all similar; petiole ca. 2 mm, coarse strigose, hairs flat and scurfy; leaf blade papery, ovate to oblong or oblanceolate to broad-elliptic, 0.6–1.2 × 0.5–1.2 cm, tapering towards the base; margin slightly revolute; apex obtuse and mucronate; both surfaces with dense flat and scurfy appressed setae. Inflorescence 1–3-flowered. Pedicel ca. 1 cm, coarsely strigose; calyx membranous; lobes broadly elliptic to ovate, ca. 2 mm, long-strigose; corolla funnelform-campanulate, lobed to ca. 1/2 length, dark red, ca. 3.5 × 4 cm; tube villous; lobes obovate-orbicular; inner basal part of corolla villous; stamens 10, ca. 1/2 as long as corolla, filaments villous near base; ovary conical, ca. 2 mm, densely pubescent; style glabrous. Capsule ovoid or subovoid, ca. 8 mm, puberulent. Fl. Jun.
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