Erianthemum lanatum Wiens & Polhill

Twigs tomentose with cream or buff stellate, dendritic and longer wispy subsimple hairs, glabrescent.. Leaves opposite, soon clustered on short shoots; petiole 4–5 mm. long; lamina oblong-elliptic to broadly elliptic, 3.5–9 cm. long, 1.5–6 cm. wide, broadly cuneate to shortly cordate at the base, felty stellate-tomentose on both surfaces.. Heads terminal from a tuft of normally 2 pairs of leaves or clustered on older leafless nodes, 4-flowered (occasionally 1 below the others); peduncle 1–4 cm. long; bract ovate, acuminate at the apex, concave, 5–8(–10) mm. long.. Receptacle 1.5–2 mm. long, long-hairy.. Calyx 2.5–3 mm. long, silky villous.. Corolla 4.5–5.5 cm. long, pale green or cream with the lobes tipped green, silky villous, densely so above the basal swelling; basal swelling 6–7 mm. long; constriction 4–5 mm. long; funnel-shaped upper part 7–9 mm. long.. Berry not seen.