Robust erect shrub 0.6-2.5 m tall. Leaves entire, elliptic to obovate, 2-6.5 cm long, 7-20 mm wide; margins flat to recurved, ciliate; upper surface with a sparse indumentum, otherwise smooth; lower surface glabrous. Conflorescence terminal on lateral branchlets, simple, erect to decurved, secund, umbelloid, usually 13-18-flowered, subsynchronous; floral rachis 1-2 mm long, villous. Flowers adaxially acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth light orange in bud, yellow at anthesis, then deepening to orange again; style-end yellow becoming red. Perianth sparsely pubescent to pilose outside, bearded inside; tepals with a prominent medial ridge. Pistil (6-) 7-8 mm long; ovary shortly stipitate villous; style sparsely villous, scarcely exceeding perianth after release of style-end; pollen-presenter lateral. Follicle ovoid, c. 15 mm long, pubescent, longitudinally ridged.
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