Shrubs, 1-2 m tall; branches villous, terete, drying dark green. Leaves opposite; petiole 1-5 cm, densely villous; blade drying papery, elliptic, 13-15 × 6-7.5 cm, adaxially subglabrous, abaxially hirsute with pubescence denser along veins, base narrowly cuneate and decurrent on petiole, apex acuminate; secondary veins 7-9 pairs, tertiary venation indistinct; stipules apparently persistent, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 15-20 mm, densely villous, shortly 2-lobed. Inflorescence laxly to rather congested-cymose, generally dichotomous, ca. 10 cm wide, branched 3 or 4 times, villous becoming glabrescent, pedunculate. Flowers subsessile, biology not noted. Calyx with hypanthium portion turbinate, ca. 5 mm, hirtellous; lobes linear, 3-4 mm, sparsely villous, with 1 lobe on ca. 5 flowers per inflorescence expanded into white calycophyll, blade elliptic, ca. 7.5 × 4 cm, base obtuse to cuneate, apex shortly acuminate. Corolla yellow, tubular-salverform, outside densely pale yellow strigose; tube ca. 18 mm; lobes ovate-lanceolate, ca. 6 × 3 mm, abaxially carinate, adaxially densely orange-yellow papillose, long caudate. Capsule or berry globose, ca. 6 mm in diam., smooth, glabrous, with calyx limb persistent. Fl. Aug.
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