Erect shrub or small tree 2.5-7 m high, with almost leafless, emergent, flowering branches. Leaves ascending, simple or rarely bi-or tripartite, terete, (8-) 15-36 cm long, 0.9-1.5 mm diam.; surface initially subsericeous, soon glabrous. Conflorescence erect, many-branched, pedunculate, often emergent above foliage; unit conflorescence umbelloid, subglobose, subsynchronous to weakly basipetal; floral rachis (1-) 2-7 (-9) mm long. Flowers with sutures adaxial. Flower colour: perianth yellow to orange; style similar, becoming red on dorsal side. Perianth densely bearded inside; tepals mostly everted below limb before anthesis, independently lax afterwards. Pistil 15-17 mm long; style exserted in late bud; pollen-presenter oblique, flat to convex, obovate. Follicles erect, slightly sigmoid, pod-like, narrowly obovoid to narrowly obloid, 23-28 mm long, rugulose to tuberculose, viscid.
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