An erect sparsely branched rather straggly shrub 2-4 m tall with a single main trunk to 50 mm in diam.; bark smooth, reddish. Branches erect, 6 8 mm in diam., densely villous. Leaves ascending, imbricate, narrowly to broadly oval, obtuse, 25-40 mm long, 8-20 mm wide; entire with a single amber callus point at apex; surface rather sparsely adpressed villous, margins villously fimbriate. Inflorescence 100-400 mm long, 50-55 mm wide, cylindric, composed of approximately 40 to 120 densely arranged, upwardly pointing axillary capitula overtopping a small, terminal coma of reduced erect foliage leaves. Capitula 3-flowered (rarely 4-flowered), subtended by a flat, undifferentiated green foliage leaf. Involucral bracts lanceolate-acute, 10-25 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, fleshy, 4 to 13 cm number, outermost bracts glabrous, innermost bracts pubescent at apex. Floral bracts 76 mm number, greatly enlarged, yellow with the appearance of involucral bracts, lanceolate-acute, tightly clasping perianths to below perianth limbs, 40-55 mm long, 12-15 mm wide, glabrous proximally but becoming villous distally. Perianth 45-50 mm long, straight; tube 2-3 mm long, bulbous, formed by the hyaline, fleshy, outwardly bowed perianth bases, glabrous; claws filiform, covered with long, straight, spreading trichomes; limbs very narrowly lanceolate, linear, acute, 5-6 mm long, glabrous, bright red in live state. Anthers sessile. Style 45-50 mm long, tapering terminally. Pollen presenter 3-4 mm long, linear-filiform-acute, with a slightly annulate thickening at junction with style; stigmatic groove terminal. Ovary ovoid, densely puberulus, 2 mm long. Hypogynous scales 1 mm long, oblong-obtuse, fleshy. Fruits cylindric, 7 mm long, 3 mm wide. Flowering takes place from August until November. The peak of the flowering season is in September.
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Shrub, erect, sparsely branched, 2-4 m high. Leaves ovate, hairy when young, hairy margins when older, 25-40 x 8-20 mm. Inflorescence cylindrical, 100-400 x 50-55 mm, topped by little coma of leaves. Axillary capitula 40-120, densely clustered, each with 3 or 4 flowers, subtended by inconspicuous green leaf. Involucral bracts 4 or 5, orange-yellow, 10-25 x 5-8 mm. Flowers cream-coloured; style 45-50 mm long, orange; pollen presenter 3-4 mm long, thread-like with pointed tip, slightly thickened ring at style junction, orange red. Flowering time Aug.-Nov.
Single-stemmed shrub, 2-4 m. Leaves ovate, ascending, hairy when young; inflorescence leaves similar. Flower heads in narrow, terminal spikes, cream-coloured, involucral bracts orange-yellow, style orange with red tip, pollen presenter needle-like.
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