A tall shrub or a tree. Branches pale rusty-pilose when young. Leaves erect, approximate, coriaceous, glabrous, sessile, narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, 6 in. long, 1 1/4 in. wide; lateral nerves many, ascending at a very acute angle, prominent on both surfaces. Heads turbinate below, dilated and globose above; bracts coriaceous, shortly white-tomentose, outer ovate, 2 lin. long and wide, innermost linear-oblong, obtuse, 1 1/2 in. long, 5 lin. wide. Flowers 1 3/4 in. long, much longer than the bracts, rusty-pilose below, white-pilose above; upper perianth-limb boat-shaped, 3-toothed. Anthers 6 lin. long, 1/2 lin. wide; connective produced into a short cone. Style thickened below, tapering above, much exserted from the perianth.
