Tree to 25 m tall, usually straight-trunked, sometimes irregular, fire-sensitive. Bark fissured, hard. Stems tomentose. Leaves whorled; petiole 2-5 mm long; lamina thin, broadly linear, 5-12 cm long, commonly 10-18 mm wide, obtuse; margins slightly recurved, commonly serrate; upper surface appressed-pubescent, glabrescent; lower surface closely white-tomentose. Inflorescence 10-15 cm long; involucral bracts rusty-tomentose, persistent. Flowers golden; styles usually yellow, sometimes deep red. Perianth 21-24 mm long including limb of 3 mm; claws pubescent both sides; limb glabrous with prominent central nerve. Pistil hooked, 32-38 mm long, glabrous; pollen presenter narrowly ovoid, 0.5 mm long. Old flowers mostly soon falling. Follicles many, broadly linear to narrowly elliptic, 10-15 mm long, 3-7 mm high, 3-5 mm wide, smooth, tomentose. Seed obovate, 16-18 mm long; seed body cuneate, 8-9 mm long, 3-5 mm wide, smooth or slightly rugose.
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