Tree, 10-15 m high, or, more often, low shrub, ½-2 m high, with reddish wood. Leaves oblong to oblanceolate, ca 30-40-nerved, 17-22 by 7-9 cm, with rounded, sometimes slightly acuminate apex, acute base, and entire to slightly dentate margin, densely velvety-tomentose beneath. Petiole 1½-4 cm long. Flowers single, rarely 2, terminal, 4-5 cm diam., the pedicel with 3 verticillate bracteoles; bracteoles lanceolate, 20-3 5 by 7-10 mm. Sepals 5-6, ovate to elliptic, ca 15 by 10 mm, densely silky hairy outside. Petals yellow, ca 25 by 13 mm. Stamens ca 200, all of approximately the same length, 8-10 mm long, with sharply emarginate apex. Carpels 6-7, ca 5 by 1½ mm with 11 mm long styles, each with ca 18 ovules. Fruit indehiscent, 2-2½ cm diam. including the enclosing sepals, which are up to 25 by 14 mm. Carpels 14 by 6 mm, 1-5-seeded. Seeds obovate, 3½ by 3 mm, exarillate.
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A small shrub. It grows 0.5-2 m tall. It has large decorative yellow flowers.
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