Shrub to 1.5 m tall. Branchlets tomentose. Leaves 0.5-2 cm long, 8-30 mm wide, similar on all parts of plant, broadly ovate to fan-shaped in general outline, basally truncate to widely cuneate (rarely a few leaves slightly cordate-amplexicaul), with 7-11 regular marginal teeth or shallow triangular lobes to 5 mm long; apices of teeth or lobes pungent; margins shortly recurved; lower surface fully exposed, subsericeous. Unit conflorescence subglobose or loosely subumbelloid, with opening pattern uncertain; floral rachis glabrous. Flower colour: early buds brick-red, later white to cream below limb; limb brick-red becoming yellow just before anthesis; style white or cream. Perianth glabrous outside. Pistil 2.5-3.5 mm long; style scarcely swollen, narrowly ovoid; pollen-presenter conical, base broader than apex of style. Follicle obloid-ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm long, ±smooth.
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