Shrub to 4 m high. Leaves with slender petiole 5–10 mm long; lamina flat, elliptic, 2–4.5 cm long, rounded at apex, leathery, glabrous adaxially when mature, cream-velvety abaxially with compact minute weak stellate hairs. Flowerheads 1.5–3 cm diam.; outer bracts broadly ovate, 7–15 mm long, obtuse, with a compact fawn to rusty indumentum of minute weak stellate hairs; inner bracts elliptic to narrowly oblong, 15–25 mm long, closely stellate-tomentose or the innermost almost glabrous, red. Petals c. 6 mm long, red, almost glabrous. Stamens: filaments 15–27 mm long, red, with pale red hairs towards base; anthers c. 2 mm long.
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