Shrub or small tree (0.8–) 1.5–10m. tall; bark grey-brown, often rough and corrugated; young stems mostly ferruginous velvety to greyish tomentose, at length glabrous; leaf-bases and scars mostly prominent, often with raised lines decurrent beneath them. Leaf-blades oblong to ovate or elliptic, (4–)6–18.5(–34) cm. long, 2.5–11.5(–26) cm. wide, obtuse or apiculate to rounded or slightly emarginate at the apex, cuneate or truncate to cordate at the base, papery to coriaceous, glabrous or sparsely pubescent above save for hairy midrib, glabrescent to thickly ferruginous velvety beneath; venation reticulate beneath; petiole (0.5–)1–2(–2.5) cm. long, glabrous to velvety tomentose. Flowers solitary or in fascicles of 2–4, extra-axillary; pedicels 1–2.7 cm. long, tomentose; bracteoles 1–2 or wanting, small. Sepals ovate-triangular, 3–4 mm. long, 4–5 mm. wide, obtuse to acute, pubescent or tomentose outside, glabrous inside. Petals greenish outside, creamy to yellowish or pinkish within, sometimes blotched with purple, or crimson blotched at base inside, fleshy; outer broadly ovate, 0.8–1.2(–1.5) cm. long, 0.9–1.1 cm. wide, obtuse, adpressed greyish or yellowish pubescent outside, glabrous or minutely papillose within; inner narrowly oblong, trigonous, 0.8–1 cm. long, 2.5–3 mm. wide. Stamens linear, 1.7–2.5 mm. long; anther-cells equal or unequal at the base; connective-prolongation obliquely capitate, minutely papillose. Carpels cylindric, 1–1.5 mm. long, glabrescent. Fruiting stalks 1.5–5 cm. long; fruits yellow or orange, ovoid or globose, 2.5–5 cm. long, 2.5–4 cm. wide; areoles slightly raised, very obtuse, glabrescent. Seeds numerous, orange-brown, cylindric, oblong or obovate-oblong, compressed, 0.8–1.4 cm. long, 4–6(–8.5) mm. wide, 3.5–5 mm. thick; aril fibrillated, ± 2 mm. long.
