Shrublets up to 0.5 m high, more or less densely branched. Leaves opposite, oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, cuneate, obtuse and with several teeth, slightly dorsiventrally compressed to terete, tomentose to pilose, grey-green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 1-3 dichasia, each with few flowers; peduncle 0.15-0.25 m long, densely hairy. Calyx: lobes triangular, 3-5 mm long, bluntly acute, tomentose. Corolla orange-red to almost yellow; tube vaguely ampullaceous to cylindrical, 12-16 mm long, hairy outside, glabrous within except for tuft of hairs where filaments are fused to tube. Anthers 1.5-1.8(-2) mm long. Squamae transversely oblong, 0.5-1 x 1.3-1.6 mm, slightly emarginate, pale yellow.
Hairy, succulent shrublet to 1 m. Leaves cuneate to ovoid, toothed above, grey-velvety. Flowers several in a short, pedunculate cyme, erect, corolla sometimes bulging between calyx lobes, reddish, filaments hairy below.