Open, erect shrub 1-2.5 m high. Leaves ovate, (4-) 6-9 (-13) cm long, (18-) 30-60 (-70) mm wide, dentate with 15-31 pungent teeth; margins slightly sinuate, flat to slightly recurved; lower surface curled-tomentose. Unit conflorescence erect, terminal, pedunculate, broadly conico-secund; floral rachis 30-50 mm long. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth greenish with tawny hairs; style green to brown. Perianth tomentose-villous or sublanate outside (biramous hairs only, the arms twisted and curled); tepals remaining coherent except along dorsal suture after release of style-end. Pistil 9-11 mm long; ovary tomentose; style tomentose-villous dorsally, mostly glabrous ventrally, exserted in late bud. Follicles perpendicular to or retrorse on pedicels, obloid-ellipsoidal, 13-19 mm long, tomentose, rugulose.
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