Shrub to 4 m, without lignotuber. Bark smooth to lightly fissured, grey-brown. Stems hirsute, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 5-15 mm long; lamina stiff, pinnatisect with 4-7 large triangular flat lobes on each side, cuneate, 7-17 cm long, 25-75 mm wide, truncate; margins not recurved; both surfaces tomentose, glabrescent except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence terminal, 3-4 cm long; involucral bracts villous, most falling early. Flowers lemon-yellow, including style. Perianth 39-43 mm long including limb of 9-11 mm, hirsute outside, glabrous inside. Pistil curved, 42-49 mm long, stiff, hirsute; pollen presenter 3-4 mm long, slightly swollen near base. Old flowers persistent. Follicles few, prominent, elliptic, 35-42 mm long, 17-22 mm high, 15-20 mm wide, very convex, beaked at style-base, velvety. Seeds obovate, 30-32 mm long; seed body broadly obovate, 12-14 mm long, 11-13 mm wide, smooth outside, covered with thin processes on inner face.
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