Shrubs, to 2.5 m, usually not rhizomatous. Stems: bark smooth to vertically furrowed, shredding; twigs conspicuously multicellular eglandular-hairy (hairs unbranched), otherwise sparsely to densely unicellular-hairy. Leaves deciduous; petiole multicellular eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy; blade ovate to obovate, 2.9-8.5 × 1.2-3.5 cm, thin, membranous to chartaceous, margins entire, plane, ciliate, eglandular-hairy, apex acute to obtuse, often mucronate, abaxial surface glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy and/or eglandular-hairy, adaxial surface scattered eglandular-hairy, otherwise sparsely unicellular-hairy, glabrate in age. Floral bud scales glabrous or densely unicellular-hairy abaxially, margins densely unicellular-ciliate. Inflorescences 6-11-flowered; bracts similar to bud scales. Pedicels 3-12 mm, eglandular-hairy, otherwise moderately unicellular-hairy to glabrate. Flowers opening before or with development of leaves, erect to horizontal, acrid-scented; calyx lobes 0.5-5 mm, glabrous or unicellular-hairy and eglandular-hairy, margins eglandular-hairy; corolla bright red to orange-red or orange, with contrasting, darker-colored, orange or yellow-orange blotch on upper lobe, funnelform, 27-51 mm, scattered, multicellular eglandular-hairy (sometimes very weakly stipitate-glandular-hairy), otherwise sparsely to moderately unicellular-hairy on outer surface, petals connate, lobes 8-22 mm (spreading nearly as broadly as tube is long), tube rather abruptly to gradually expanded into lobes, 17-34 mm, longer than lobes; stamens 5, much exserted, ± unequal, 40-73 mm. Capsules borne on erect pedicels, 15-30 × 4.5-8 mm, densely, stiffly eglandular-hairy and unicellular-hairy. Seeds without distinct tails, flattened portion of testa well devloped at each end; testa expanded, dorsiventrally flattened, ± loose. 2n = 26.
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