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Corolla 4–5 cm long, with basal swelling green, rest of tube orange, lobes pale green with red markings at their base, white silky villous over shorter branched hairs, the simple hairs notably long on the upper part of the basal swelling and usually rather sparse on the rest of the tube; basal swelling 4–7 mm long; constriction (3)4–7 mm long; funnel shaped upper tube 7–9 mm long.
Heads mostly clustered at old nodes, a few sometimes axillary, (2)4-flowered; peduncle 2–7(9) mm long, tomentose; bract 3–5 mm long, ovate, concave, occasionally with a small leafy limb, then up to 10 mm long, thinly to densely stellate pubescent.
Leaf pairs well spaced; petiole 5–15 mm long; lamina 3–10.5 × 3.5–7 cm, broadly oblong-elliptic to ovate or subcircular, cordate, glabrous or nearly so above, fulvous stellate tomentellous beneath, with 4–7 obscure lateral nerves.
Stems spreading or pendent to 1 m or so; twigs tomentose with fulvous stellate and shortly dendritic hairs, glabrescent.
Calyx 3–4 mm long, often slightly urceolate, sparsely to generally densely silky villous.
Berry orange, 10 mm long including calyx, subglabrous to thinly pilose; seed red.
Receptacle 1–1.5 mm long, long hairy.
