Main features of the subsection :
Shrub, 1.5-3m. Leaves herbaceous, elliptic, lower surface covered with a dense whitish to pale brown tomentum composed of dendroid hairs. Inflorescence lax, 5-12-flowered. Calyx minute. Corolla 5-lobed, deep rose to scarlet, tubular- to funnel-campanulate, nectar pouches absent, outer surface densely hairy. Stamens 10. Ovary with a dense dendroid indumentum intermixed with a few glands ; style glabrous.
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