Shrub with several erect stems from lignotuber, 0.7-1.5 (-3) m tall. Leaves narrowly to broadly elliptic or rarely tending ovate, 15-20 cm long, 45-85 mm wide, entire, cuneate to broadly so at base; margins not recurved, undulate; lower surface with sparse (rarely dense) appressed biramous hairs, lacking underlying minute papillae. Conflorescence erect, mostly axillary, usually not or scarcely exceeding foliage, usually simple, secund, weakly basipetal; floral rachis 50-100 mm long, with appressed mostly pale hairs (some rusty brown). Flower colour: perianth light green to apricot or creamy brown; style pale orange-apricot to pale pink. Perianth openly silky outside with mostly pale hairs, pilose inside. Pistil 40-55 mm long; stipe 7-11 mm long; ovary subsericeous; style loosely villous in basal half and some wispy hairs persisting almost to apex. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal to subglobose, c. 15 mm long, tomentose with reddish blotching.
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