Shrubs or trees to 12 m tall, with few to many stems, much-branched, glabrous except bract tips which are ferruginous-hairy. Adult leaves narrowly obovate to narrowly spathulate, 11-28 cm long, 15-60 mm wide, entire, chartaceous; apices acuminate; venation obscure above, conspicuous beneath, but scarcely raised; surfaces minutely granulate when dry. Intermediate leaves simple, entire. Conflorescences many, transversely ellipsoidal, 36-60-flowered, 5-8 cm diam.; anthesis basipetal; involucral bracts inconspicuous, mostly 15-75 mm long, pink and/or green. Flowers with pedicels 10-29 mm long; tepals 28-36 mm long, cohering along their margins in a slit tube, pink to crimson outside, bright red inside; style incurved. Body of follicle 5-7 cm long.
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