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Leaf-lamina up to 4·7 x 1·4 cm., oblong to elliptic-or ovate-oblong, acute or obtuse and apiculate or sometimes folded at apex, roundish at the base, entire, submembranous to papyraceous, concolorous or of a lighter green beneath, sericeous on both faces but more densely so beneath, the indumentum of the oldest leaves sparser and shorter, longitudinally 3–5-nerved, the nerves impressed above, prominent below, the transverse nerves and reticulation neither raised nor visible.
Longer stamens: anthers 9–11 mm. long; pedoconnective 15–18 mm. long with the appendage c. 1·5 mm. long and filaments 8 mm. long; shorter stamens: anthers 8 mm. long; pedoconnective c. 2 mm. long with the appendage 1 mm. long and filaments 8 mm. long.
Sepals 7–13 x 2·5–3·5 mm., somewhat broadened towards the blunt or notched apex, outside sericeous, inside glabrous and red, late deciduous; intersepalar segments 2·5–4-mm. long, rectangular to spathulate, sericeous, stiff-bristly at apex.
Fructiferous receptacle c. 7x7 mm., subspherical, contracted at the mouth; capsule shorter than the receptacle, spherical, setose on the upper part and with a crown of short setae at the apex.
Flowers 5-merous, surrounded by the uppermost leaves, solitary or in 3-flowered cymes, forming ± dense terminal inflorescences; pedicels very short or absent; bracts absent.
Receptacle 6–8 x 5–6 mm., subhemispheric or subcampanulate, densely whitish-yellow sericeous above, the bristles inserted at the roundish top of short flat appendages.
Young branches 4-gonous, ± densely yellowish-brown-hairy, the hairs short to ± long, patent.
Leaves opposite, subsessile or shortly petiolate, the petiole up to 3 mm. long, setose.
A much-branched shrub up to c. 2 m. tall.
Petals c. 3 x 2·5 cm., violet.