Shrub or tree to 10 m without lignotuber. Bark smooth or horizontally grooved, thin, grey. Stems tomentose. Leaves: petiole 4-15 mm long; lamina commonly undulate, broadly linear, 15-27 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, obtuse; margins not recurved, dentate with triangular lobes; both surfaces pubescent to hirsute, glabrescent except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence conspicuous, 7-15 cm long; involucral bracts hirsute, persistent. Flowers cream with orange limb; indumentum white; styles cream, orange towards apex. Perianth 34-37 mm long including limb of 6-7 mm, tomentose-hirsute outside, glabrous inside. Pistil curved, 39-45 mm long, glabrous; presenter 4-6 mm long, fusiform, constricted above base, finely ribbed. Old flowers soon falling. Follicles up to 60, elliptic-oblong, 14-20 mm long, 3-6 mm high, 6-11 mm wide, smooth, tomentose, mottled. Seed cuneate-obovate, 16-19 mm long; seed body cuneate, 8-10 mm long, 5-6 mm wide, smooth inside, ridged outside.
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