Tree to 8 m tall. Bark rough, flaky, often blackened by fire. Leaves with petiole 1-2 cm long; lamina ±elliptic, to 12.5 cm long, 4.5 cm wide; margin entire to variously lobed; lobes pungent. Conflorescence (main axis) of terminal clusters, to 22 cm long; lateral spikes 10-12 cm long, densely pale brown-woolly; involucral bracts oblong to broadly ovate; floral bracts 1-1.5 mm long. Tepals c. 12 mm long, cream, pale brown-woolly. Ovary pale brown-woolly; pollen presenter clavate, c. 2.5 mm long. Fruit 7-9.5 cm long, ±ovoid, pale brown-velvety, weathering to grey. Seeds 6.5-7 cm long, brown.
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