Shrub or liane, 3–6 m. high (or higher?). Branches sarmentose, blackish, rusty-or yellowish-subappressed-pubescent at first, eventually glabrous. Leaves petiolate; lamina 7–18.5 x (3) 3.5–7 cm., obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or shortly acuminate at the apex, cordate or more rarely rounded at the base, chartaceous, dark green and glabrescent above, glaucous and sparsely subappressed-pubescent below especially on the golden or reddish nerves with simple hairs, and venation prominently reticulate on both sides, eglandular; petiole 3–7 mm. long, appressed-pubescent. Flowers bisexual, solitary or in 2–5-flowered cymes, extra-axillary; pedicels 1.5–2.5 (3.5) cm. long, slender, subappressed-pubescent; bracteole small, 1–2 mm. long, ovate-triangular, subappressed-pubescent, ± median or near the base of the pedicel. Sepals c. 3 mm. long, broadly ovate-triangular, obtuse, ± connate at the base, golden-tomentellous. Petals yellowish, thick, the outer ones c. 8–9 mm. long, ovate-orbicular, obtuse or shortly acuminate, densely golden-tomentellous but glabrous near the base within, the inner ones shorter, narrower, oblong to obovate, obtuse or subacute, golden-tomentellous except at the base within. Stamens and staminodes c. 20–30, 1–1.5 mm. long, glabrous; connective-prolongation very short or absent; filament ± equal to the anther. Carpels 15–18, c. 2 mm. long, cylindric-obconic; ovary glabrous, 4-ovulate; style c. 1/3 as long as the ovary, cylindric. Fruit on a pedicel 1–3 cm. long; fruiting carpels 2–7, 1–4-seeded, segments 0.7–1 x 0.5–0.6 cm., orbicular to ellipsoid, apiculate, glabrous, finely rugose, scarlet, with stipes 2–5 mm. long. Seeds c. 6–9 mm. long.
