Shrub to 5 m tall and 4 m wide, without lignotuber. Bark smooth or slightly tessellated, grey. Stems tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 5-8 mm long; lamina oblong, 4-9 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, truncate or emarginate; margins flat, very shortly and obtusely dentate; both surfaces densely tomentose, glabrescent except fine pits in lower surface. Inflorescence terminal, showy, 7-21 cm long; involucral bracts tomentose, falling early. Flowers yellow including styles. Perianth 28-32 mm long including limb of 6-8 mm, hirsute outside, glabrous inside. Pistil markedly S-shaped below apex, 40-50 mm long, shortly pubescent in lower half, glabrous above; pollen presenter fusiform with basal swelling, 3.5-4 mm long, 8-ribbed. Old flowers persistent. Follicles up to 50, broadly elliptic, 15-25 mm long, 8-18 mm high, 10-16 mm wide, smooth, pubescent, mottled. Seed obovate, 30-35 mm long; seed body obovate, 11-14 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, muricate inside, slightly rugose outside.
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