Perennial herb about 0.3 m. tall; stems several, decumbent, about 1 m. long, at first brownish-tomentose, later glabrous.. Leaf-blade round or squarish-reniform, 1.3–4 cm. long, 1.3–3.7 cm. wide, rounded or subacute at the minutely apiculate apex, cordate at the base, entire to coarsely dentate, stellately pubescent on both surfaces; petiole 0.7–3.5 cm. long.. Flowers axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.8–2.4 cm. long; pedicels about 8 mm. long; bracts large, oblong-elliptic or cymbiform, 2.1–3.7 cm. long, 0.9–1.4 cm. wide, stellate-tomentose on both sides.. Outer sepals larger, ovate or rounded-oblong; inner oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 1–1.5 cm. long, 4–12 mm. wide, tomentose outside, glabrous inside.. Corolla white, glabrous; tube very narrow, 4.2–6 cm. long, 2–4.5 mm. wide; limb funnel-shaped, 3 cm. long, 4.8–6 cm. wide.. Capsule subglobose, 1.3–1.5 cm. high, 1.0 cm. wide, glabrous; fruiting pedicels thickened.. Seeds ovoid, 7 mm. long, 4.25–5.5 mm. wide, brown, shortly woolly.
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