Shrub 4-5.5 m high. Leaves broadly ovate to-obovate or occasionally broadly elliptic,-rhombate or-oblong in general outline, 7.5-12 cm long, 35-70 mm wide, sub-pungent, entire or coarsely and shallowly 3-7-dentate with most or all teeth in apical half; surfaces very similar, minutely tomentose. Conflorescence axillary or terminal, simple or to 3-branched, decurved; unit conflorescence loosely conico-cylindrical; ultimate floral rachis (30-) 50-120 mm long; pedicels retrorse, 6-10 mm long. Flower colour: perianth orange with a paler limb; style orange (redder dorsally), with yellow tip. Perianth pilose to almost glabrous outside with erect simple glandular hairs especially on limb, pilose inside. Pistil 9-11 mm long; stipe 2.2-3.5 mm long; ovary glabrous; style minutely pilose with simple erect hairs, not exserted from perianth in late bud. Follicle subglobose to subreniform, 17-24 mm long, glabrous.
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