Perennials with thick, much branched stems up to 1,5 m tall, 0,6 m in diameter and with yellow peeling bark. Leaves obovate, 60-120(-250) x 30-100(-120) mm, cuneate, obtuse or acute, dorsiventrally flattened and with an indistinct groove along main vein, glandular-pubescent to glabrous, green to yellowish green. Inflorescence a thyrse with 3-6 monochasia, each with 4-10 flowers, glabrous; peduncle (40-)80-150(-200) mm long, usually deep red; pedicels 6-15 mm long, red. Calyx 4-6 mm long, glabrous or rarely with few scattered hairs, red; lobes triangular, acute. Corolla glandular-puberu-lous to glabrous outside; tube cylindrical to slightly broadened at mouth, 12-16 mm long, with few fine hairs inside where filaÂments are fused to tube, yellowish orange to red; lobes (8-) 10-13 mm long, recurved or recoiled, orange with yellow and dark red spots in throat. Anthers c.2,5 mm long. Squamae transversely oblong, 0,8-1 x 1,8-2,1 mm, slightly emarginate, fleshy, yelÂlow to orange.
