Shrub up to 6 m. high with repeated subapical branching; branchlets with pale brownish-grey bark.. Petioles 0.5–2 cm. long, practically glabrous.. Leaf-lamina obovate-elliptic to ± obovate, (5-)7–11 cm. long, (2.5-)3–5 cm. wide, ± obtuse, cuneate, slightly puberulous along midrib beneath, especially when young; nervation inconspicuous on upper surface, primary lateral nerves ascending and finely raised on lower surface.. Flowers clustered in axils of ± terminal leaf-rosettes; pedicels up to 2–5 cm. long, with ± floccose ferrugineous pubescence.. Calyx with dense floccose ferrugineous pubescence; outer sepals ± lanceolate, up to 8 mm. long; inner sepals with greyish-brown indumentum.. Corolla yellow; segments up to 7 mm. long; tube ±1.5 mm. long.. Filaments up to 2.5 mm. long; staminodes ± ovate, up to 3.5 mm. long, densely woolly externally, ± connivent.. Ovary densely pilose; style up to 7 mm. long.. Fruits unknown.
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