Shrub with lignotuber, to 1.5 m tall, or without lignotuber and to 5 m tall. Bark smooth. Stems tomentose, soon glabrous, red-brown. Leaves alternate or whorled; petiole 5-13 mm long; lamina narrowly lanceolate to obovate, 4-13 cm long, (0.5-) 1-2.5 (-3.5) cm wide, obtuse; margins recurved, dentate to entire; tomentose, glabrescent above, hirsute on nerves below, glabrescent but white-woolly in pits. Inflorescence 7-13 cm long; involucral bracts to 12 mm long, tomentose, persistent. Flowers openly spaced, pale brown to golden brown. Perianth 15-18 mm long including limb of 2.5-3 mm, closely pubescent outside, glabrous inside. Pistil slender, straight, 17-20 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter not thickened, 1 mm long. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to c. 60, narrowly elliptic, 9-18 mm long, 1-5 mm high, 3-7 mm wide; valves semi-elliptic, smooth, tomentose, glabrescent. Seed obovate, 13-18 mm long; seed body falcate, 8-9 mm long, 3-4 mm wide, smooth.
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