A much branched densely leafy shrub 50-75 cm high, glabrous in all vegetative parts. Leaves opposite, spreading, sessile, cordate at base, broadly ovate or orbicular, thin in texture, mucronate, the margin entire, coriaceous, 25-35 mm long, 20-40 mm wide, the midrib slender, prominent below, extending to the apex. Flowers numerous, sessile in a dense terminal cluster surrounded by the uppermost leaves and just exceeding them. Bracteoles absent. Calyx tube c. 20 mm long, slightly dilated at the base, gradually broadening in the upper half to 3 mm diam., striate, densely hirsute; segments 4, spreading horizontally, 5 mm long, 4 mm wide, obtuse, hirsute below, glabrous above, pale yellow. Scales 4, erect, fleshy, dark-coloured, broad-based, deltoid, obtuse, the margins inflexed, 3 mm long. Anthers 8 in two whorls, included, all fertile, 2 mm long. Ovary 3 mm long, densely hirsute. Style slender, 6 mm long. Stigma capitellate.
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Large-leaved, resprouting shrub to 1 m. Leaves opposite, broadly ovate to orbicular; involucral leaves slightly smaller. Flowers 6-15 at branch tips, yellow, hypanthium minutely hairy, ribbed, petaloid floral scales 4, fleshy.
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