Shrub or small tree to 3 m tall. Branchlets glabrous, sparsely lenticellate. Leaves: petiole 5-7 mm long, glabrous; blade elliptic, 2.6-11.1 by 1-3.3 cm, 2.4-4.3 times as long as wide, apex acuminate, base cuneate, glabrous above and beneath, 10-17 pairs of secondary veins, tertiary venation reticulate. Inflorescence terminal, 2-5-flowered, 1-4 cm long; peduncle 0.2-1.4 cm long, glabrous; pedicels 5.5-7 mm long, glabrous. Sepals ovate,1.9-2.1 by 2.4-2.9 mm, 0.7-0.8 times as long as wide, apex obtuse to rounded, glabrous, ciliate. Corolla salmon pink or yellow, infundibuliform; tube 3.8-4 mm long, widening at stamen insertion, 1.8-2.1 times as long as sepals, 0.4-0.5 times as long as lobes, sparsely and minutely puberulent at top of tube outside, glabrous inside; lobes 8.5-8.9 by 7-7.7 mm, 1.1-1.3 times as long as wide, elliptic, apex rounded, minutely puberulent outside and inside; antipetalous corona lobes adnate to the corolla lobe for entire length but free at margins, 4.3-4.5 mm long, apex subentire to crenate, glabrous inside, c. 6 times as long as alternipetalous lobes; alternipetalous corona lobes free but often so small as to be difficult to see, simple, 0.7-0.8 mm long; alternating corona lobes lacking. Stamens inserted at c. 0.7 of tube length from base, exserted from tube; filament c. 1 mm long; anthers 5-7.1 by 1.1-1.7 mm, sagittate, adnate to the style head, pubescent on the outside only at the very tip. Gynoecium of 2 free carpels united into a common style, ovaries 1.7-2.2 mm high, glabrous; style and style head 3-5.5 mm long. Fruit unknown (see note).
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