Shrub to 0.6 m high. Leaves petiolate, ovate in general outline, 2.5-8 cm long, 20-60 mm wide, pinnatifid with 4-8 (-13) pungent triangular teeth or shallow lobes, occasionally an entire leaf near inflorescence; base broadly cuneate; margins undulate, not recurved; surfaces similar; lower surface with an open to sparse indumentum of appressed biramous hairs, usually also with erect simple glandular hairs at least along veins and margins. Conflorescence terminal or subterminal-axillary, usually simple, subglobose to loosely ovoid; floral rachis 3-18 mm long. Pedicels 2-3.5 mm long. Torus extended dorsally well beyond pedicel. Flower colour: perianth red; style red or pinkish cream to lemon-cream. Perianth glabrous outside, villous inside. Pistil 6.5-9.5 mm long; stipe 1.5-2.2 mm long, adnate to dorsal wall of torus and almost perpendicular to pedicel; ovary glabrous; style glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent or papilloid, not or only weakly exserted from late bud. Follicle oblong-ellipsoidal, 9.5-12.5 mm long, glabrous.
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