Tree to 10 m tall, fire tolerant. Bark thick, fibrous, fissured or tessellated, grey. Stems hirsute and tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 3-10 mm long; lamina obovate-elliptic, undulate, truncate or obtuse, 3-10 cm long, mucronate; margins not recurved, serrate or sometimes entire; both surfaces hirsute-tomentose, glabrescent, shining except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence 7-9 cm wide, with 60-100 flowers; involucral bracts short, tomentose, persistent. Flowers cream and pink becoming dull red; style cream with green pollen presenter. Perianth 32-40 mm long including limb of 2.5-4 mm, shortly pubescent outside, glabrous inside; limb glabrous. Pistil straight, 27-35 mm long, glabrous except a few hairs above ovary; pollen presenter scarcely thickened, 1-1.5 mm long. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles 1-3, ovate, curved, 14-20 mm long, 13-24 mm high, 10-16 mm wide, smooth, tomentose. Seed transversely elliptic, oblique; seed body elliptic, often irregular, 5-7 mm high, 9-12 mm wide, rugose inside, smooth outside.
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