Evergreen shrub, often semi-scrambling. Shoots angular, tomentose when young. Lvs opposite; petioles 1-2.5 cm long, tomentose. Lamina 4-10 × 2.5-6 cm, ovate, hairy above, densely greyish or pale brown stellate-tomentose below, coarsely and irregularly dentate; base broadly subcordate or cordate, forming a narrow petiolar wing; apex obtuse. Panicles broad-pyramidal, loose, composed of many small, densely tomentose cymes. Fls shortly pedicellate. Calyx densely tomentose; lobes broad-ovate, obtuse, ± imbricate, c. 1 mm long. Corolla c. 4 mm long, pale mauve or whitish; tube sparsely or moderately hairy outside, orange within; lobes = or slightly > tube, from ± oblong to suborbicular, reflexed. Stamens inserted near top of tube; filaments slender, 3-4 mm long; anthers small, well-exserted. Style c. 2 mm long; stigma ± capitate. Ovary tomentose. Fr. not seen.