Erect robust shrub 1-4 (-8) m tall. Leaves 4-10 cm long, 0.4-3.5 cm wide, entire and spathulate or narrowly so, or spathulate-cuneate and with 3-5 rounded apical teeth or shallow lobes, always with a long narrowly cuneate base; margins flat or incurved; surfaces sparsely silky, soon glabrous. Conflorescence erect, terminal or rarely cauline, scarcely emergent from foliage, usually 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence cylindrical, subsynchronous; floral rachis 40-60 mm long, glabrous or with scattered to dense but inconspicuous biramous and/or simple glandular hairs. Flower colour: perianth bronze in bud, reddish pink at maturity; style pink with a cream tip. Pistil 14-18 mm long; pollen-presenter a slightly oblique to erect narrow cone, slightly dorsally bulbous at base. Follicle broadly ellipsoidal or subglobose, 13.5-20 mm long, glabrous, tuberculate with viscid pustular craters developing.
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