Shrub 0.8-2 m tall. Leaves petiolate, narrowly oblong or narrowly ovate in general outline, 3-6.5 cm long, 15-25 mm wide, serrato-dentate with (6-) 13-25 pungent teeth spaced evenly around margins; base ±truncate to broadly cuneate; margins undulate, not recurved; surfaces similar, ±densely glandular-hispidulous. Conflorescence terminal or axillary, simple, subglobose tending subsecund; floral rachis 1-5? mm long. Pedicels 2-2.5 mm long. Torus extended dorsally well beyond pedicel. Flower colour: perianth red; style pale orange. Perianth glabrous outside, villous inside near base. Pistil 4-6 mm long, glabrous; stipe 1-3 mm long, almost perpendicular to pedicel; style not or scarcely exserted from late bud. Follicle obloid, 9.5-11 mm long, glabrous.
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