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Much-branched shrub up to 2.5 m high. Stems woody, many from base, covered with a light grey bark, sinuous, tips decumbent or climbing. Leaves deciduous, ovate-cordate to orbicular-cordate, 10-80 x 7.5-50.0 mm, entire, often folded along midrib, apex obtuse or sub­acute, deflexed, base mostly widely cordate, sericeous to tomentose on both surfaces, more densely so beneath; petiole pubescent, 4-25 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, 1-5-flowered, sometimes forming a kind of leafy panicle at tips of branches; peduncle 25-90 mm long, hairy; pedicels 8-30 mm long, hairy; bracteoles hairy, 2.5-15.0 mm long, often numerous and forming a kind of involucre at base of cyme and then one bracteole foliaceous and up to 40 x 20 mm. Calyx 6-16 mm long, usually greyish pubescent to tomentose, unequal, elliptic to obovate-spathulate, outer sepals smaller than inner ones, all accrescent in fruit, then glabres­cent and brown. Corolla funnel-shaped, 40-50 mm long, pale mauve or pinkish with magenta centre, limb spreading horizontally up to ± 60 mm wide; midpetaline areas strigose outside. Capsule with thin leathery pericarp, ellipsoid, apiculate, 8-10 mm long. Seed single, ellipsoid, ± 7 mm long, glabrous, light brown. Flowering time November to May.

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Much-branched shrub up to 2.5 m high. Stems woody, many from base, covered with a light grey bark, sinuous, tips decumbent or climbing. Leaves deciduous, ovate-cordate to orbicular-cordate, 10-80 x 7.5-50.0 mm, entire, often folded along midrib, apex obtuse or sub­acute, deflexed, base mostly widely cordate, sericeous to tomentose on both surfaces, more densely so beneath; petiole pubescent, 4-25 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, 1-5-flowered, sometimes forming a kind of leafy panicle at tips of branches; peduncle 25-90 mm long, hairy; pedicels 8-30 mm long, hairy; bracteoles hairy, 2.5-15.0 mm long, often numerous and forming a kind of involucre at base of cyme and then one bracteole foliaceous and up to 40 x 20 mm. Calyx 6-16 mm long, usually greyish pubescent to tomentose, unequal, elliptic to obovate-spathulate, outer sepals smaller than inner ones, all accrescent in fruit, then glabres­cent and brown. Corolla funnel-shaped, 40-50 mm long, pale mauve or pinkish with magenta centre, limb spreading horizontally up to ± 60 mm wide; midpetaline areas strigose outside. Capsule with thin leathery pericarp, ellipsoid, apiculate, 8-10 mm long. Seed single, ellipsoid, ± 7 mm long, glabrous, light brown. Flowering time November to May.