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A herb or shrub. It grows 2-4 m tall. It is hairy. The leaves are 10 cm long by 7 cm wide. The flowers occur singly in the axils of the leaves. They are red and 2-3 cm across. The fruit capsules is 1 cm across and hairy.
Flowers 2–3 cm. in diam., red, solitary, axillary and forming terminal racemes (sometimes corymbose) at the apices of the stems by reduction of the upper leaves; peduncles up to 6 cm. long but usually much shorter.
Shrub or perennial herb, up to 2–4(5) m. tall; stems with fuscous stellate hairs and an underlying pubescence of finer, pale green, stellate hairs.
Epicalyx of 6–8 bracts; bracts 2–7 mm. long, filiform to linear, silvery-green when dried and contrasting strongly with the fuscous calyx.
Calyx 8–14 mm. long, fuscous-pilose; lobes 5–13 × 2–5 mm., narrowly lanceolate, acute.
Petals 7–20 mm. long, obovate, with a few scattered setulose stellate hairs.
Staminal tube 4–5 mm. long; free parts of filaments 2–3(5) mm. long.
Seeds with long white silky hairs and a short white pubescence.
Capsule 10 mm. in diam., subglobose, puberulous.
Style-branches 3–5 mm. long.
