Stems spreading to pendent, to 1.5–2 m. long; twigs soon thickening to 5–8 mm. diameter, tomentellous with white to fulvous stellate and very shortly dendritic hairs, glabrescent. Leaves opposite or subopposite, well spaced; petiole 5–15 mm. long; lamina ovate to oblong-elliptic, rarely some obovate, (5–)9–15 cm. long, (3–)4.5–12 cm. wide, broadly cuneate to mostly cordate at the base, stellate-puberulous, tardily glabrescent, with 7–10 pairs of lateral nerves. Heads 1–several in axils or at nodes below, 2–6-flowered; peduncle 3–12 mm. long; bract ovate-circular, concave, 4–6 mm. long, pubescent. Receptacle 2 mm. long, long-hairy; calyx tubular, 6–8 mm. long, silky villous. Corolla 5–6 cm. long, pale greenish yellow, flushing pale orange on tube, very densely covered with long silky pale to lemon-yellow hairs masking the constriction of the tube; basal swelling 5–11 mm. long; constriction 4–5 mm. long; distal part of tube ± 10 mm. long. Berry pink to red, 20–23 mm. long including calyx, pilose, ultimately glabrescent; seed orange-yellow, shading to red at the blunt end.