Heads loose, terminal from a tuft of usually 2 pairs of leaves (sometimes 2 short shoots together at primary node), (2)4–7-flowered, often 1–2 flowers below the others, rather resembling a candelabra; peduncle 1.2–2.5 cm long; pedicel 0–3 mm long; bract 3–5 mm long, lanceolate, concave, or trowel-shaped.
Corolla 4–5 cm long, greenish-yellow, sometimes tinged orange or with red inside, stellate tomentose and with longer dendritic hairs, sometimes glabrescent on lobe tips; basal swelling 4–5 mm long; constriction 3–4 mm long; funnel shaped upper tube 6–7 mm long.
Stems spreading to 1 m; twigs tomentose with coarse stellate and often dendritic hairs, glabrescent.
Receptacle plus calyx urceolate, 2–3 mm long (calyx 0.7–1 mm long), rather uniformly villous.
Berry blue-green, with calyx 10–12 mm long, pubescent; seed orange to red.