Climber to 25 m high. Branches shortly tomentose to glabrous. Leaves: petiole 1-3.5 cm long; blade papery to subcoriaceous, ovate to elliptic, 3.3-14 by 1.3-8 cm, 1.5-2.6 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base rounded to cordate, usually puberulent in secondary vein axils beneath and often on midrib above and beneath, 4-7 pairs of secondary veins, ascending, not reaching margin, tertiary venation subscalariform and reticulate. Inflorescence 10-30 cm long; peduncle 0.4-10.5 cm long, glabrous to tomentose; pedicels 5-10 mm long, glabrous to tomentose. Sepals ovate, 0.7-1.6 by 0.7-1.1 mm, 1-1.5 times as long as wide, apex acute to acuminate, puberulent to glabrous, ciliate. Corolla pink; tube 3.5-7 by 1.6-2.4 mm, 0.8-2 times as long as lobes, 3-4.2 times as long as calyx, glabrous or, rarely, with 5 small pubescent patches at top of tube outside, inside pubescent on and below the filaments; lobes 2-5.5 by 1.5-2.7 mm, 1.3-2 times as long as wide, ovate, apex acute, glabrous outside and inside. Stamen filaments 0.7-1.5 mm long; anthers 2-2.7 by 0.7-1 mm. Disk of 5 narrow lobes fused together at the base, acuminate at the apex and clasped around and longer than the ovary, 1.5-2 mm long. Ovaries 0.6-1.1 mm long, pubescent; style and style head 4.5-6.6 mm long, style inflated for most of its length, narrower at base and top. Fruit 26-39 cm by 2.3-3 mm; often somewhat spiral. Seeds 16-23.5 by 2-2.7 mm; coma 2.6-3.3 cm long.
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Lianas to 10 m. Branches and branchlets slender, pubescent or glabrous. Petiole 1.5-4 cm; leaf blade ovate, narrowly ovate, or elliptic, 6-12 X 3-7 cm, base obtuse to rounded or subcordate, pubescent or glabrous on both surfaces; lateral veins 4-6 pairs. Cymes to 25 cm, long pedunculate, many flowered. Corolla purple or rose, ca. 7 mm; tube glabrous, longer than lobes; lobes narrowly ovate, ca. 2 mm, spreading. Ovary pilose. Style thickened at middle. Follicles linear, to 55 cm X 3-5 mm, pubescent to gla-brous. Seeds linear, ca. 2 cm, coma 2.5-3 cm. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct.