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Leaves and leafy bracts rather crowded towards ends of branches; petiole 0.5–1.5 cm long; lamina softly coriaceous, 3–10 × 1.5–3 cm, lanceolate to ovate-oblong or elliptic, obtuse to subacute at apex, cuneate to slightly rounded at base, covered with inconspicuous greyish stellate and shortly dendritic hairs above, pale tomentellous beneath with slightly longer more tawny hairs at least medially, with 4–8 pairs of obscure lateral nerves.
Corolla 4.5–6 cm long, usually red at least on claw of lobes inside, otherwise cream to greenish, tomentellous with pale dendritic hairs and also sparingly villous with tawny-orange subsimple hairs 3–4 mm long, also with a tuft of long hairs at base; apical swelling of bud slight, 8–9 × 3 mm; basal swelling slight; lobes reflexed, 10–12 mm long, upper half linear-elliptic, pointed, hardened inside.
Stems in all directions to 1 m or so, much branched; branchlets soon stout, tomentose, with longer orange-tawny dendritic to subsimple hairs 1–4 mm long on youngest parts.
Style pale green, slender, slightly thickened opposite filaments, conspicuously glandular-papillate, narrowed to a 3–4 mm neck below ovoid to obovoid stigma.
Flowers 2–several in the axils, subsessile; pedicels mostly 0.5–l mm long; bracts mostly spathulate to foliaceous, tomentellous.
Stamen filaments green to red; tooth 0.7–1 mm long; anthers 3–4 mm long, with 6–12 cells in each row.
Calyx 1.5–2 mm long, similarly hairy but somewhat glabrescent, long-ciliate.
Berry 8 × 5 mm, ellipsoid to obovoid, villous.
Receptacle 2.5–3 mm long, densely villous.
