Erect or climbing shrub to 2m, glabrescent lenticellate branchlets, yellow stellate pubescence. Coriaceous leaves to 150mm x 100mm glabrous except hairy on nerves above & pubescent beneath. Violet terminal panicles to 300mm x 150mm with 6 violet bracts pubescent beneath to 22mm x 13mm, flowers with blue corolla, violet calyx to 8mm long hairy outside & silky white hairs within & 5 triangular lobes 1mm long, corolla glabrous outside & hairy within with 5 puberulent lobes