Shrub to 3 m tall, apparently lacking lignotubers. Branches erect; young branches densely pale brown-pubescent. Leaves with petiole 3-4 mm long; lamina ovate, obovate to elliptic, 10-30 mm long, 7-13 mm wide, sparsely pubescent or sometimes glabrous; margin entire; apex mucronate; midrib prominent below; venation reticulate above. Conflorescence terminal or appearing axillary, 1-flowered; inner bracts 8-30 mm long. Flowers zygomorphic. Perianth 25-40 mm long, red with prominent yellow or yellow-green limb, strongly dilated about middle, sparsely hairy; adaxial suture apparently deepest. Hypogynous glands 4, free. Ovary densely strigose; style sparsely pilose. Fruit asymmetrically cuneate, c. 8 mm long, c. 4 mm wide, beaked; sides smooth or finely fissured. Seeds 2, asymmetrically cuneate, c. 7 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, with minute wings at apex and base.
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