Shrub or small tree to 5 m tall, without lignotuber. Bark smooth, grey. Stems hirsute, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 2-3 mm long; lamina cuneate-obovate, 1-4 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, obtuse or acute, pungent; margins serrate with 1-5 teeth each side; both surfaces hirsute, glabrescent (pits on lower surface woolly), dull green above. Inflorescence 3-4 cm wide, with 55-65 flowers; involucral bracts 4-7 mm long, tomentose. Flowers cream, pink towards base, becoming pink throughout; style cream turning red; pollen presenter green. Perianth 24-25 mm long including limb of 3-4 mm, pubescent outside, glabrous inside; limb glabrous. Pistil straight, 24-25 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter ovoid, 1 mm long. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles usually 1-5, obliquely ovate, 17-21 mm long, 10-13 mm high, 9-12 mm wide, smooth, tomentose, mottled grey. Seed obliquely ovate, 17-20 mm long; seed body unevenly triangular, 4-5 mm high, 7-8 mm wide, wrinkled outside, ridged inside.
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