Erect shrub up to 1 m with spreading bristly-hispid to pilose branches. Leaves 3-6 x 1.5-3 cm, obovate or lanceolate-oblong, ciliate and bristly hispid. Flowers in pairs, nodding on axillary peduncles up to 1.5 cm long. Bracts up to 2 cm long, ovate, boat-shaped, glandular and hispid to pilose on both surfaces, ciliate. Bracteoles absent. Calyx lobes minute or obsolete. Corolla 2 cm long, funnel-shaped; tube narrow, slightly gibbous at the base; lobes rounded, erect, much shorter than the tube, hairy within and without, pink. Stamens 5; filaments equal to the length of corolla lobes. Ovaries glandular-hairy, free, style exaerted. Berries c. 12 mm long, ellipsoid-oblong, red, not confluent, glandular-pilose.
Two varieties may be distinguished as follows:
