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Suffrutex 0.3–1.5 m tall.Stems erect, single or several shoots from a woody rootstock, mostly burnt off every year; young parts densely covered with rather rough short spreading pale yellowish hairs; older stems ridged with reddish-brown glabrous bark, eventually scaling in small pieces.Leaves opposite or in whorls of 3, 3.5–15.5 × 1.2–7.5 cm, ovate, broadly to narrowly elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, rounded, acute or shortly acuminate at the apex, rounded to cuneate at the base, very discolorous, rather roughly pubescent above, roughly velvety beneath and obscuring the surface, or only densely pubescent on all the venation and not obscuring the surface; venation drying pale and yellowish above contrasting with brownish-green, and raised closely reticulate and brownish beneath contrasting with green; petiole 0.6–1.3 cm long; stipules c. 2 mm long, triangular, with subulate appendage c. 5 mm long.Inflorescences often borne at leafless nodes, (1)3–7(10 or more)-flowered; peduncle up to 7 mm long; secondary inflorescence branches sometimes present; pedicels 2–12 mm long, bracts c. 6 × 3.5 mm, oblong.Calyx tube 3 mm long, campanulate, densely yellowish-brown pubescent; limb-tube c. 1 mm long; lobes 5–13 × 2–5.5 mm, triangular to ovate- or oblong-lanceolate, pubescent.Corolla apiculate in bud; orange-yellow or bright orange, densely ± velvety pubescent; tube 1.7–2.5 cm long; lobes 5–6 × 2.5–4 mm, triangular-ovate, often distinctly veined in dry state, distinctly appendaged.Style exserted 5–6 mm, the pollen presenter greenish-yellow, 2–3 mm long, cylindrical, lobed at the apex.Fruit yellowish, 1.8 × 1.4 cm, ellipsoid, or 1.3 cm in diameter and subglobose, shortly yellowish-brown velvety pubescent, ± lobed when dry, crowned with persistent calyx.