Shrubs, 0.6-2 m tall; branches puberulent becoming glabrescent. Leaves generally isophyllous; petiole 2-7 cm, densely tomentulose or puberulent; blade drying thinly papery, elliptic-oblong, obovate, or elliptic, 10-25 × 4-10.5 cm, adaxially glabrous or sparsely puberulent along midrib, abaxially glabrous or puberulent to tomentulose along principal veins, base cuneate to acute and often long decurrent, apex acute to acuminate; secondary veins 10-15 pairs; stipules persistent, triangular to ovate, 3-5 mm, puberulent, obtuse, acute, or shortly 2-lobed. Inflorescences terminal, laxly cymose, densely puberulent to tomentulose, many flowered, often deflexed to pendulous; peduncle 0.3-1 cm; branched portion 4-5 × 7-10 cm; bracts reduced or narrowly triangular to lanceolate, 2-5 mm; pedicels 2.5-7 mm. Flowers pedicellate. Calyx densely puberulent, tomentulose, or glabrescent; hypanthium portion subglobose to obconic, 1.5-2.5 mm; limb lobed to base; lobes narrowly triangular to narrowly lanceolate, 4-6.5 mm. Corolla yellow, tubular, densely puberulent to glabrescent outside; tube 14-16 mm, white villous above middle inside or in throat; lobes broadly ovate-triangular, 2-2.5 mm. Berries subglobose, ca. 5 mm in diam., puberulent to glabrescent. Fl. Jul-Aug, fr. Oct-Jan.
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