| Description : | Shrubs evergreen, erect. Branchlets slender, usually pendulous, glabrous. Stipules subulate, usually caducous; petiole stellate; leaf blade elliptic or oblong, not lobed, papery, glabrous, base obtuse or broadly cuneate, margin dentate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Flowers solitary, axillary on upper branchlets, pendulous. Petals 5, red, deeply pinnatifid, strongly reflexed. Staminal column longer than corolla, glabrous, curved upward toward tip; anthers restricted to upper part. Style branches 5, glabrous. Capsule oblong-cylindric. Fl. year-round. |
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