Erect shrub up to ± 1.2 m high. Stems shortÂly silky hairy when young, glabrous or greyish or yellowish canescent when older. Leaves at tips of young branches, firm to subcoriaceous, entire, lanceolate varying to obovate-orbicular, 30-80 x 10-15 mm, base usually cuneate, tip obtuse to acute, often with a white-hairy mucro, green and glabrescent above, silky beneath, ultiÂmately glabrescent; margin ciliate; petiole much shorter than leaf, silky pubescent. Peduncles 1-flowered, short, silky pubescent as are bracteÂoles, pedicels and calyx; bracteoles 8-18 mm long; pedicels very short. Sepals subequal, lanceolate, 15-18 mm long, up to 28 mm long in fruit. Corolla salver-shaped, tube 70-100 mm long, narrowly cylindric, greenish white and silky outside, deep magenta and glabrous inside; limb white, 45-60 mm wide, spreading, silky on midpetaline areas outside. Capsule ovoid, 19-23 mm long, hairy to glabrous. Seeds ±10 mm long, densely covered with very long, shiny, brownish hairs. Flowering time NovemÂber to May.
