Rounded shrub to 2 (–4) m high. Branchlets smooth, ferruginous-tomentose when young. Leaves shortly petiolate, elliptic to ovate or suborbicular, mostly 1.5–2.5 cm long, rounded at base, entire, obtuse to rounded at apex, coriaceous, ±glabrous adaxially, densely stellate-tomentose with minute soft hairs abaxially. Flowers 1–3, terminal to short branchlets, usually pendulous, with terminal leaves persistent and unmodified; pedicels 5–10 mm long; bracteoles submedial to basal, linear, caducous. Calyx hemispherical, 2–7 mm high, truncate to undulate, densely tomentose. Corolla cylindrical or funnel-shaped, 1.5–2.5 cm long including the prominent erect lobes, cream to pale green or red and yellow. Stamens with antipetalous filaments broadened towards base; anthers included to exserted, not recurved at margins, obtuse to truncate.
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