Dense erect shrub to 2 m high. Branchlets rusty-flocculose. Leaves: petiole to 8 mm long; lamina narrowly oblong-elliptic, mostly 2–3 cm long, obtuse, papery, sparsely and minutely stellate-hairy or scabridulous adaxially, sparsely to densely stellate-hairy abaxially with large hairs. Flowers solitary, terminal to branches; pedicel 2–4 mm long; bracteoles filiform, caducous. Calyx turbinate, square in cross-section, thin-walled, in all to 15 mm long with the upper 2/3 divided into 4 lanceolate valvate lobes, green, sparsely stellate-hairy on both surfaces. Corolla narrowly cylindrical, to 3 cm long, green (mauve with age), densely stellate with fawn hairs. Stamens: antipetalous filaments slightly broadened at base; anthers sublanceolate, 2.2–3.2 mm long, with margins slightly reflexed on drying.
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