Shrub 1.5–3 m tall; young stems pubescent with branched hairs, older stems with corky bark. Leaves alternate, simple, (2.1–) 5.3–11.6 × (1.2–) 2.2–5.5 cm, elliptic; adaxial surface glabrescent; abaxial surface densely pubescent with branched hairs; base cuneate; margins entire; apex acute to attenuate; petioles (0.4–) 0.8–2.5 (–3) cm. Inflorescences axillary on young branches near the shoot apex, 1 to 4 (–8)-flowered; pedicels 1.1–1.7 (–2) cm in flower, 1.6–2.4 cm in fruit, terete, pendulous, densely pubescent with many-branched hairs. Calyx 6–7 × 5–6 mm, tubular to slightly urceolate, green, with few to many-branched hairs, with five broadly triangular lobes, ca. 0.8 × 2–2.5 mm in flower, shallowly divided in flower, deeply divided in fruit, in fruit, the calyx accrescent 9–10 × 10–11 mm, lobes 4–5 × 7–8 mm; corolla 15–20 × 4–4.5 mm at anthesis, tubular, flaring at the mouth, the exterior deep blue-purple, with many simple or occasionally branched hairs, the pubescence increasing towards the mouth, the interior deep blue-purple, glabrous, the lobes 5, 2.6–2.8 × 2.2–2.6 mm, acute to the apex and cucullate; stamens 5, included; filaments with simple and branched hairs, fused to the corolla at 3.8–5.2 mm from the base, with the free portion 7–11.4 mm long; anthers 3.5–5.2 × 1.3–1.7 mm, oblong, cream, longitudinally dehiscent; ovary 3.6–4.8 × 1.7–2.5 mm, pyriform, glabrous, with a yellow nectariferous disc, style 13–15 mm, the stigma green, clavate, bilobed. Berry 12–14 × 9–11 mm, slightly ovoid, greenish-yellow at maturity with 20 to 30 sclerosomes, the basal 3/4 enveloped in the accrescent fruiting calyx; seeds 110 to 170 per berry, 2–2.1 × 1.7–1.9 mm, yellow, reniform.