Erect to spreading shrub, 1.5-6 m high. Leaves narrowly ovate to narrowly elliptic or almost linear in general outline, 7.5-22 cm long, 5-25 mm wide, entire or serrate to pinnatifid; teeth (when present) obliquely triangular, 3-6 mm long, sometimes almost pungent; margins shortly recurved; lower surface mostly exposed, sericeous with straight hairs. Unit conflorescence erect, secund; floral rachis 45-75 mm long. Flower colour: perianth pinkish fawn; style coral-pink to red or rarely pale orange, with a green tip. Perianth subsericeous outside. Pistil 21-24 mm long; ovary stipitate; style glabrous. Follicle 13-16 mm long, sericeous.