Tall open shrub 2-6 m tall. Leaves oblong in general outline, 7-16 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, dentate to shallowly lobed with (7-) 9-27 triangular teeth or lobes spaced evenly about margins; surfaces similar, minutely sericeous when young but soon glabrous, occasionally scattered hairs persisting. Conflorescence terminal, axillary, or cauline, decurved, simple or basally 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence conico-cylindrical, lax; ultimate floral rachis 40-160 mm long. Flower colour: perianth coppery brown in young bud, becoming brick red then orange-red to bright yellow; style orange to apricot or yellow. Perianth glabrous outside, white-bearded inside; tepals not everting after anthesis, with inner surface not displayed. Pistil 17-23 mm long; ovary glabrous; style with few to many papillae or short erect simple hairs in apical 2-3 mm or sometimes over apical half. Follicle ellipsoidal, 10-17 mm long, glabrous.
Grows in open heath and shrub associations and in shrubby forest understorey, on sandstone talus slopes or on plateaus, often near escarpment edge.
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