Erect shrub or small tree to 8 m tall, without lignotuber. Bark ±smooth, thin, grey. Stems tomentose. Leaves: petiole 3-5 mm long; lamina broadly oblong, cordate or obcordate, 3-9 cm long, 2-7 cm wide, truncate; margins shortly dentate, not or slightly recurved; upper surface tomentose, glabrescent; lower surface white-tomentose. Inflorescence erect, cylindrical but squat, 3-6 cm long; bud pattern retained until anthesis; involucral bracts hirsute, persistent. Flowers grey or hairs in upper flowers brown; style scarlet, rarely dark red or orange. Perianth 30-32 mm long including limb of 3-4 mm, densely villous outside, glabrous inside; tepals not awned. Pistil looped before anthesis, afterwards straight, 40-48 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly conical, 1.5 mm long. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles elliptic, 6-8 mm long, 1-2 mm high, 2-3 mm wide, tomentose. Seed 11-14 mm long; seed body cuneate, 5-7 mm long, 4-7 mm wide, rugose inside and outside; wing notched.
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