Suffrutescent vines climbing over trees and shrubs; stems densely villous with hairs to 4 mm in length and appressed. Leaves with elliptic blades 6-11.5 cm long, 2.5-6 cm wide, chartaceous, apically acuminate, basally rounded to obtuse, the upper surface with pilose hairs arising from stellate bases, the lower surface with ascending villous hairs, the petioles to 2.5 cm long. Inflorescences axillary, the pedicels borne singly or in pairs, to 3 cm long; mature bracts oblong lanceolate, to 4 cm long and 1 cm wide, apically attenuate and basally rounded; corolla red, pink or white, funnelform, to 5 cm long, 8 mm wide at the mouth, 6 mm at the base, glabrous, the 5 equal lobes to 6 mm long, 4.5 mm wide, apically retuse to rounded; stamens attached at about the midpoint of the corolla tube, the anthers to 1.5 cm long; ovary velutinous, ca. 4 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, style to 5 cm long, stigma forked. Fruit a flattened drupe, obovate, to 2 cm long, about 1 cm wide, oblique at the apex and terminated by a portion of the persistent style, dark brown and densely puberulent.
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