Small shrubs, 0.4–0.6 m tall; young shoots sparsely scaly and hispid. Petiole 6–8 mm, scaly, densely villous; leaf blade leathery, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 2.5–5 × 1.5–2.8 cm; base broadly cuneate to rounded; apex obtuse, mucronate; abaxial surface densely brownish-scaly and pubescent; adaxial surface densely hispid, midrib prominent abaxially. Inflorescence 1-or 2-flowered. Pedicel 0.8–1 cm, densely scaly; calyx deeply 5-lobed; lobes ca. 6 mm, long-ovate, sparsely scaly and hairy above, glabrous below; corolla funnelform, creamy white, sparsely scaly outside, ca. 4.4 × 6 cm; stamens 10, 2.5–2.8 cm; filaments pubescent below; ovary densely scaly and pubescent; style ca. 4.3 cm, densely scaly in lower 1/3. Capsule cylindrical to cylindrical-ovoid, ca. 25 × 10 mm. Fl. May.
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