Shrub to 3.5 m tall, without lignotuber. Bark roughly flaky, grey. Stems hirsute-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 5-10 mm long; lamina broadly linear to narrowly cuneate, 5-14 cm long, 4-20 mm wide, acute or truncate; margins flat, serrate to almost entire; both surfaces hirsute, glabrescent. Inflorescence on short lateral branchlet, occasionally terminal, spherical, 7-8 cm wide; involucral bracts villous, persistent. Perianth 20-26 mm long including limb of 3-3.5 mm, hirsute outside, sparsely hirsute on margin inside. Pistil curved, 30-32 mm long, very fine, glabrous; pollen presenter scarcely thickened, 1 mm long, finely ribbed. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 100, linear-elliptic, 10-18 mm long, 3-7 mm high, 4-7 mm wide, smooth, villous. Seed narrowly obovate, 12-18 mm long; seed body cuneate, 7-8 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, slightly rugose.
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