Shrub 1.5-3 m tall. Leaves 2-12 cm long, 25-80 mm wide, flabelliform to ovate, serrato-dentate with 14-30 teeth, sometimes pungent; margins flat or slightly recurved; lower surface tomentose. Conflorescence simple or 2-or 3-branched; unit conflorescence erect to spreading, up to 6-flowered, sometimes subsecund, acropetal; ultimate floral rachis 2-5 mm long. Flowers acroscopic throughout; pedicels ascending, 5-8.5 mm long. Flower colour (may vary on and between plants): perianth yellow, white, or apricot, darkening to reddish after anthesis; style reddish, sometimes with a pale tip. Perianth tomentose outside with both biramous and erect simple glandular hairs, with a narrow transverse beard and papillae inside. Pistil 21-24.5 mm long; stipe 2.3-2.9 mm long; ovary glabrous; style with (sometimes very few) minute erect simple hairs. Follicle obliquely ellipsoidal, 12-19 mm long, thin-walled, glabrous or with scattered biramous and simple erect hairs.
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