Erect, dense, glabrous, evergreen or semi-evergreen shrub, to 3.5 m tall, lacking black glands; rhizomes 0. Shoots reddish, terete or slightly 2-angled below infl. Lvs subsessile, 3.5-10 × 0.7-3 cm, ovate or elliptic-ovate, glaucescent and dotted with pellucid glands below; apex obtuse or mucronulate. Panicles terminal, up to 12-flowered; pedicels usually 1-3 cm long. Sepals somewhat unequal, 6-12 mm long, broad-ovate or suborbicular, moderately accrescent, eglandular, obtuse or rounded, sometimes mucronulate, entire. Corolla 4.5-7 cm diam., golden, ± saucer-shaped; petals broad-obovate to suborbicular, rather irregular, much > sepals. Stamens ?-1/2 length of petals, in 5 bundles. Styles 5, c. 1/2-(⅔) length of ovary. Capsule 1.2-1.5 cm long excluding persistent styles, ovoid, dry. Seeds c. 1-3 mm long, flattened and ± oblong, longitudinally lined, mostly abortive.