Taprooted perennial. Stems unbranched or branched below, with soft eglandular hairs, also becoming glandular above, (15)-30-60-(80) cm tall. Lvs with soft eglandular hairs, green, lanceolate to ovate, acute to acuminate, long-petiolate, becoming sessile above; lamina (2)-3-6-(10) × (1)-1.5-3-(4) cm. Infl. a (3)-7-10-(20)-flowered dichasium, sometimes unequally branched; pedicels 0-1-(2) cm long; bracts lanceolate to ovate, acuminate, green. Fls unisexual. Calyx with short to long glandular and eglandular hairs: in ♂ weakly 10-veined, cylindric, 10-14 mm long; in ♀ weakly 20-veined, ovoid, 12-15 mm long; teeth triangular-acuminate, erect or recurved. Petals pink to magenta; limb 2-fid; claw lobed at base of limb; coronal scales oblong, toothed at apex, 1.5-2 mm long in ♂, 1 mm long in ♀. Styles 5, erect or recurved at apex, 9-11 mm long. Capsule globose to broadly ovoid, included within or = calyx, 10-15 mm long, dehiscing by 10 revolute teeth; carpophore very short. Seeds dull dark brown to grey, reniform, rounded, bluntly warty, 1.2-1.4 mm long.