Plant erect or spreading, glabrous except inflorescence axes and calyx shortly brown-tomentose. Leaves elliptic to broadly obovate, rounded at apex; lamina 25-75 mm long, 20-50 mm wide, somewhat shining above and dull below, recurved at margin, contracted at base into distinct petiole usually 2-7 mm long; venation pinnate, indistinct. Peduncle 0.5-3 mm long; pedicels 0.5-1.5 mm long; bracts 2-3 mm long, encircling ovary. Calyx entire, 1 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 32-42 mm long, curved, truncate, red. Anthers 1.5-3 mm long, about equal to free part of filament. Fruit ellipsoidal, 8-10 mm long.