Shrub with lignotuber, prostrate or stems sometimes to 20 cm high. Stems densely tomentose, with linear bracts among leaves. Leaves: petiole 5-18 cm long; lamina very undulate, oblong-obovate, 15-30 cm long, 3-8 cm wide; margins not recurved, irregularly dentate; both surfaces densely hirsute, glabrescent except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence 8-15 cm long; involucral bracts prominent, hirsute. Flowers rusty brown; styles cream. Perianth 24-26 mm long including limb of 3 mm, hirsute outside, and inside in upper half; limb hirsute, glabrescent. Pistil 29-31 mm long, gently curved, glabrous; pollen presenter ovoid, 0.3-0.4 mm long. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 15, elliptic, 25-32 mm long, 10-15 mm high, 10-12 mm wide, smooth, densely hirsute. Seed obovate, 25-32 mm long; seed body triangular, 9-12 mm long, 14-16 mm wide, smooth inside, irregularly ridged outside.
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