Evergreen liana or glabrous climbing shrub,coriaceous leaves 125mm x 60mm, with terminal cymes with bracts to 2mm long to 5 flowers, sometimes fragrant, calyx 16mm long, corolla tube to 30 mm long, white aging yellow at base, pink turning purple at upper part on outside, white aging yellow, lobes 24mm long, red or purple streaked inside, dark brown or blackish-purple glabrous divergent follicles to 180º to 465mm long x 26mm diameter covered with numerous lenticels