Erect or scandent shrub to 4.5m high with glabrate purple-brown branchlets. Denticulate coriaceous leaves to 70mm x 40mm glabrous above & scabrous-pubescent beneath with denticulate margins. 4-18 flowered terminal or axillary pubescent racemes to 100mm long with glabrate mucronate bracts to 12mm x 2.5mm & bractlets to 5mm long, white, pink or purple flowers, glabrous 5-lobed calyx 5mm long with lobes 7mm x 6mm, pilose corolla to 7mm x 3mm. Red capsule to 4mm across turning black with bracts turning yellow.