Glabrous except for young shoots, inflorescences and flowers shortly ochre to red-brown tomentose, the leaves and corollas soon glabrescent. Leaves scattered; lamina narrowly to broadly ovate, 6-16 by 3.5-7 cm, thin, cuneate at the base to a petiole 3-8 mm long, undulate at the margin, rounded or sometimes broadly obtuse at the apex, dull on both sides; venation pinnate with the midrib and the semicurvinerved main laterals prominent on both sides. Inflorescences many at the nodes, arising from cushion-like swellings, a short 4-10-flowered raceme; axis very slender, 12-20 mm long; pedicels 0.5-4 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 5-merous, 21-30 mm long, very slender, slightly widened upwards, narrowed to a neck, clavate and acute at the apex; tube in the open flower 14-20 mm long with the lobes reflexed 3-5 mm higher, curved. Anther 2-2.5 mm long, obtuse, slightly shorter than the free part of the filament.
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