Shrub to 7 m without lignotuber. Bark smooth, grey. Stems densely hirsute. Leaves: petiole 15-30 mm long; lamina broadly linear, 15-35 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, truncate; margins flat, deeply triangular-lobed; both surfaces woolly, glabrescent except pits in lower surface. Inflorescence 7-12 cm long; involucral bracts prominent, villous, persistent. Flowers orange with pale pink hairs; styles orange, cream at base. Perianth 38-40 mm long including limb of 8-9 mm, tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Pistil 37-43 mm long, curved, glabrous; pollen presenter 5-6 mm long, fusiform, constricted near base, finely 8-ribbed. Old flowers persistent, concealing follicles. Follicles up to 30, elliptic, 22-28 mm long, 10-15 mm high, 13-15 mm wide, hirsute. Seed obliquely obovate, 23-29 mm long; seed body triangular, 9-12 mm long, 7-9 mm wide, somewhat tuberculate on both sides, with a ridge across inner upper margin.
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