Erect shrub or small tree up to 3 m tall, much branched from the base, latex milky; young branches covered with white cottony tomentum. Bark soft, corky. Leaves 5-15 x 1.8-10 cm, broadly ovate, ovate-oblong, elliptic or obovate, entire, base cordate, apex acute, subsessile, young leaves covered with white cottony tomentum, becoming subglabrous. Flowers c. 2.5 cm across, white outside, purplish within, tips darker. Peduncles upto 10 cm long, pedicels 1.5-4.2 cm long. Sepals c. 5 mm long. Corolla 1-1.2 cm long, divided c. 2/3 the way down, glabrous, lobes acute. Fruit 6.5-9.5 x 3-5.1 cm, recurved, tip not invaginated in the tissue of the fruit. Seeds 6-8 mm long, flat, broadly ovate, minutely tomentose, comose, coma 3.1-3.2 cm long.