Large pubescent climber or shrub to with greyish woolly pubescent branchlets. Thick leaves to 105mm x 45mm glabrous above & pilose on nerves beneath. Large panicles to 300mm long with 3 tomentose violet bracts to 30mm x 15mm, 25mm rosy-purple flowers or white marked brown, 5-lobed hairy calyx to 5mm long with lobes to 1.5mm long, corolla tube to 6mm long glabrous except villous band in throat with very long upper lip to 4mm