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Flowers solitary or in more or less 3-flowered cymes; peduncle 1–3 cm. long; pedicels about 1·2 cm. long; bracts obovate, up to 2·5 cm. long, tomentose outside.
Stems slender, trailing, woody, covered with whitish woolly somewhat floccose tomentum as are the leaves, petioles, peduncles, bracts and generally the sepals.
Arching shrub, up to 2·5 m. high, close to the species above, but distinct because of the different shape of the leaves and distributions.
Seeds densely covered with long white or sometimes fulvous cottony hairs, giving the dehisced fruit the appearance of an open cotton ball.
Corolla funnel-shaped, white or pale mauve, with purple throat, 6·5–9 cm. long and limb up to 6 cm. in diam.
Sepals elliptic, up to 1·6 cm. long, obtuse, chartaceous, generally persistently tomentose.
Capsule broadly ellipsoid, up to 1·6 cm. long, coriaceous, glabrous.
