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A shrub. It loses its leaves during the year. It grows 1.5 m high. The bark is grey. The young branches have a soft silvery covering. The leaves are simple and arranged in spirals. They are broadly oval and 3-8 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They are folded along the midrib and are slightly leathery. They are bright green above and dull with white hairs underneath. The flowers occur singly in the axils of leaves. They are white with a tube 7-10 cm long and 5 cm wide. The fruit is a dry capsule.
Leaves at the ends of the young branches; leaf lamina from lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic, obovate to obovate-circular (ovate-lanceolate in var. ovato-lanceolata) obtuse to acute often with a white-hairer mucro, usually cuneate at the base, 3–8 × 2–5·5 cm., entire, green, glabrescent above, densely white-silky beneath mainly on the veins, ultimately glabrescent; petiole up to 3 cm. long, shortly silky-pubescent.
Shrub, up to 1.2 m high. Leaves entire, lanceolate or oblanceolate to elliptic. Flowers solitary. Sepals very Long-acuminate. Corolla very long salver-shaped, up to 110 mm long. Seeds covered with long hairs. Flowers white or pink, deep magenta inside.
Flowers solitary, peduncle up to 1 cm. long, densely silky-pubescent as the pedicels, bracts and calyx; pedicels up to 0·5 cm. long; bracteoles linear to linear-lanceolate, acute, up to 1·8 cm. long.
Corolla very long salver-shaped, white or pink, deep magenta inside, up to 11 cm. long, appressed, silky outside; tube narrowly cylindric 7–9 cm. long; limb spreading, up to 6 cm. in diam.
Stems covered with short white silky hairs when young, older ones glabrous, greyish or yellowish canescent.
Sepals subequal, lanceolate, very long acuminate, up to 2·8 cm. long in fruit.
Capsule ovoid, up to 2·3 cm. long, thinly hairy to glabrous, coriaceous.
Seeds densely covered with very long shiny fulvous-cream hairs.
Erect shrub, up to 1·20 m. high.
