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Inflorescence a robust spike-like raceme up to 16 cm long and 7 cm wide, terminal; peduncle grooved, very shortly and sparsely hairy with rusty-brown hairs; pedicels stout, 2–4 mm long, 1–1.5 mm diameter, shortly rusty-pubescent; bracts cupuliform, shortly rusty-pubescent.
Perianth deep red, 2.5–3 cm long, rather clavate in the upper third but otherwise slender, with very short greyish appressed hairs but not densely covered, lobes grooved.
Flower buds markedly ascending at first, later spreading almost at a right angle.
Hypogynous scales triangular, narrowly attenuated to the apex, 2–2.5 mm long.
Tree up to 25 m in height.
Branchlets ± glabrous.
Anthers 6–7 mm long.
Styles patent.
