A woody climber, reaching 12 ft. long; stems slender, terete, densely clothed with short brown hairs. Leaves oblong to oblong-lanceolate, sub-coriaceous, shortly petioled, 1–3 in. long, obtuse with mucronulate apex, rounded at the base, green and glabrous above with sunk nerves when dry, matted with brown hairs and with prominent nerves beneath. Cymes dense, many-flowered, usually secund on short peduncles or congested into a terminal panicle; bracts minute; pedicels short, silky. Sepals oblong-lanceolate to ovate, shortly acuminate, 4 lin. long, the inner slightly shorter, glumaceous, ferruginously silky on the back. Corolla white, twice as long as the calyx, obscurely lobed, ferruginously silky except on the commissural areas. Style bifid only above the middle. Capsule globose, rigid, glabrous, as long as the calyx. Seeds black, glabrous.
