Stems spreading to pendent, well branched, to 1.5 m. or so; twigs tomentellous with white to fulvous stellate and shortly dendritic hairs, glabrescent. Leaves opposite to alternate, well spaced except at the base of new shoots; petiole 3–15 mm. long; lamina elliptic-oblong to ovate, 3–10 cm. long, 1.2–6 cm. wide, cuneate, rounded or cordate at the base, glabrous to subdensely stellate-pubescent, glabrescent, with 4–8 pairs of lateral nerves. Heads 1–several in axils or at nodes below, 2–6-flowered; peduncle 0–18 mm. long; bract broadly ovate, concave, 2–5 mm. long, sometimes with a leafy limb and up to 15 mm. long, stellate-pubescent. Receptacle 1–1.5 mm. long, long-hairy; calyx tubular, 2.5–6 mm. long, thinly to densely silky villous. Corolla 3–5(–5.5) cm. long, pale often yellowish green, generally flushed orange to pink on the tube above the basal swelling, usually densely silky villous, the long whitish, cream or sometimes reddish hairs masking the constriction, but sometimes (especially in coastal plants) long hairs rather sparse on the basal part of the then notably waisted tube; basal swelling 3–7 mm. long; constriction 3–6 mm. long; funnel-shaped upper tube 4–12 mm. long. Berry orange to bright red, 10–15 mm. long including the calyx, pilose; seed red. Fig. 17/1–4.