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A herb or shrub. It can be 3 m high. The leaves are large. They are 30 cm long by 10 cm wide. They have yellow woolly hairs underneath. The fruit is fleshy and 1.7 cm long by 1.4 cm wide.
Erect herb or shrub 0.5–3 m tall with main stems woody at the base, up to 6 cm in diameter; young stems with bristly hairs but soon glabrous, the epidermis papery and peeling.
Involucres ± red or greenish-pink, 2–4 cm long, glabrous or pilose near the base, densely bristly hairy inside at the base, the margins 3–4-lobed; bracteoles hairy inside.
Calyx tube glabrous, but surrounded at base with stiff bristles, 3 mm long; limb-tube 4 mm long, pubescent; lobes 2–2.5 mm long, bristly pubescent.
Stamens projecting from the throat of short-styled flowers, deeply hidden in the tube in long-styled flowers.
Fruits red or orange when ripe, 1.5–1.7 × 1.1–1.4 cm, with white or rose sweet pulp.
Style somewhat longer than corolla tube in long-styled flowers; stigma 3–5-lobed.
Corolla white, glabrous; tube (1.6)2.5–3 cm long; lobes 2–3 × 1.5 mm.
Seeds brown, c. 0.6 mm long, the testa finely reticulate.
