Medium-sized bush growing on rock, stems branching lower down, younger ones green and herbaceous, extended and villous at apex, hairs normally red; leaves grouped together near apex, herbaceous, petiole 5-12 mm, limb obovate to oblanceolate, 5-12 cm, 2-3 times longer than wide, pointed, coarsely serrate, densely villous on both sides; inflorescence long, with multiple flowers, bracts 2, linear, with red villous hair, peduncles as long or longer than the leaves they subtend, pedicels slim, 10-20 mm, flowers hanging; tube and lobes of calyx red, eglandular, villous red, lobes elongated lanceolate, erect, corolla red, 20-25 mm, tube ventricose in centre, with glands directly attached and fine red-orange hairs, eglandulous, throat contracted, with small limb, lobes almost equal, upright, erose.
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