Shrub 0.3-0.8 m tall. Leaves petiolate, ovate to broadly oblong-elliptic or slightly obovate in general outline, (15-) 30-83 mm long, (8-) 20-43 mm wide, dentate to pinnatifid with (3-) 7-15 weakly pungent subtriangular teeth lobes; base broadly cuneate to truncate; margins flat; surfaces similar, with lower surface open-tomentose (biramous hairs only). Conflorescence terminal, usually simple, dense, subglobose; floral rachis 5-8 mm long. Pedicels 2 mm long. Torus markedly elongate at dorsal side. Flower colour: perianth crimson; style and style-end dull orange. Perianth glabrous outside, pilose inside at about level of ovary, glabrous below. Pistil 5.5-7 mm long; stipe 1.7-2.0 mm long, adnate to torus and perpendicular to pedicel; ovary glabrous; style glabrous or minutely glandular-pubescent, not or scarcely exserted from late bud. Follicle oblong-ellipsoidal, 11-16 mm long, glabrous.
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