Trees to 33 m tall, 0.6 m d.b.h., ferruginous-tomentose on upper parts of branchlets, petiole bases, conflorescence axes, bracts, pedicels and perianths. Adult leaves simple, petiolate, narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, 8-25 cm long, 2-4.5 cm wide, tapered to petiole; apices obtuse or occasionally acute; venation brochidodromous. Intermediate leaves strongly pinnatifid, to 50 cm long. Conflorescence corymb-like, 10-52-flowered, aggregated in bunches of 2-20 or more; bracts subulate. Flowers bright orange-red; tepals 3.5-5 cm long; pedicels 2.5-4.3 cm long. Body of follicle 7-10 cm long.
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