Shrubs or small trees, 1-5 m tall; branches terete, densely strigose to hirsute. Leaves opposite; petiole 0.4-1.2 cm, strigose to strigillose; blade drying thinly papery, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or lanceolate, 5-20 × 1.2-5.5 cm, adaxially strigillose on principal veins and glabrescent on lamina, abaxially glabrescent on lamina, strigose to sericeous on principal veins, and strigillose on higher order veins, base acute to attenuate, apex long acuminate; secondary veins 5-8 pairs; stipules deciduous, suborbicular, ovate, or leaflike, 3-5 × 3.5-5 mm, strigose to glabrescent, base shortly stipitate, apex spreading to reflexed, obtuse to shortly acuminate. Inflorescences congested-cymose or thyrsoid, cylindrical in outline, branched to 1 or 2 orders, 4-10.5 × 3-10 cm, densely strigose, hirsute, or strigillose, subsessile to pedunculate; peduncle to 1 cm; bracts subulate, linear, narrowly triangular, or lanceolate, 1-5 mm; pedicels to 1 mm. Flowers subsessile to pedicellate. Calyx densely strigillose; hypanthium portion turbinate, ca. 1 mm; limb deeply lobed; lobes lanceolate to narrowly triangular, 0.3-1.5 mm, unequal on an individual flower (this entire size range found on one flower). Corolla red or purple, salverform or tubular, outside glabrous; tube 10-11 mm; lobes oblong to lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 mm, obtuse to rounded. Anthers lanceolate, 1-1.7 mm, partially exserted, subsessile. Stigma 2-lobed, 0.3-0.5 mm. Capsules globose, 2-2.5 mm in diam., strigillose. Fl. Feb-Dec, fr. May-Dec.
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