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Corolla (3)3.5–3.8 cm long, green or grey, with yellow-green lobes, later flushed a little orange or pink; apical swelling of bud 4 × 2 mm, narrowly obovoid-ellipsoid, slightly 5-angled and ribbed; basal swelling very slight; lobes nearly erect (spreading to 45º), 1–1.1 cm long, narrow, upper half 1 mm wide, narrowly oblanceolate and slightly hardened inside.
Shrub, up to 1 m high, parasitic primarily on Acacia species but also found on Nicotiana and Ximenia. Bud apex at maturity rounded to acute. Calyx tubular. Corolla glabrous, corolla tube not swollen at base, lobes slightly recurved at point of filament attachment. Flowers with corolla pale greenish to pink with age.
Leaves alternate, clustered at older nodes; petiole 1–2 mm long; lamina 10–40(60) × 3–10(15) mm, linear-oblanceolate, oblanceolate or narrowly elliptic, shortly rounded at apex, attenuate at base, hispidulous on both surfaces to subglabrous, with obscure venation, lower nerves often steeply ascending.
Flowers 2–4 in axils; pedicel 0.7–1 mm long; bract obliquely cupular, subentire to irregularly toothed, glabrous to minutely hispidulous, ciliate.
Stamen filaments yellow-green turning reddish, slender, inflexed; anthers 2–3 mm long.
Berry orange-yellow, with apex and persistent calyx red, 8–10 × 5–7 mm, obovoid.
Shrub extending perhaps to 1 m or so; branchlets terete, hispidulous.
Style green, slender; stigma pink, 0.8–1 mm across, capitate.
Calyx 2.5–3 mm long, tubular, ciliolate.
Receptacle 0.8–1 mm long.
