An erect shrub to 2.5 m in height with a single stout main stem. Flowering stems erect or slightly sprawling, beset with a sparse indumentum of short crisped hairs, interspersed with straight, patent, silky trichomes 5.0 mm long. Leaves broadly elliptic to elliptic-oblong, 5.0-8.0 cm long, 2.0-3.0 cm wide, apex obtuse usually tridentate, very rarely entire; pubescent, with a fine greyish indumentum of short crisped hairs. Inflorescences ovoid on opening becoming depressed-ovoid, 0.0-2.0 cm in diam., subsessile to pedunculate, peduncle to 1.5 cm long. Involucral receptacle narrowly conic acute, 40 cm long, 1.0 cm wide. Involucral bracts ovate acute, 1.0-1.5 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm wide, cartilaginous proximally becoming brown and membranaceous distally; margins densely ciliate, apices crinite. Bracteoles 2.0 cm long, 0.5 cm wide, lanceolate acuminate, apices slightly recurved; very thickly lanate proximally, sericeous distally. Perianth 4.5-5.0 cm long, pale greenish yellow. Perianth tube 7.0 mm long, glabrous; narrowed proximally, adaxially ventricose distally. Perianth claws becoming sigmoidly curved at anthesis; beset with a few slender, spreading trichomes. Perianth limbs 8.0 mm long, narrowly lanceolate linear, acute; sericeous. Style 7.0-7.5 cm long, tapering subterminally, slightly obliquely deflected in a clockwise direction; yellow at anthesis becoming crimson with age. Pollen presenter cylindric acute, 6.0-8.0 mm long, pink becoming carmine; stigmatic groove terminal. Hypogynous scales subulate, 3.0 mm long. Flowering takes place from July to November.
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Like L. gueinzii but leaves ovate, with (1-)3 apical teeth, grey-felted.
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