This species is characterized by its elliptic, leathery, shiny leaves with the secondary veins weakly looping to interconnect or reticulating near the margins, short triangular stipules with developed aristas, axillary and terminal cymose inflorescences with developed peduncles and pedicels, short truncate calyx limbs, tubular white corollas with tubes 12-15 mm long and lobes 3-6 mm long, and subglobose to oblate fruits 15-18 mm in diameter. The leaves are unusually thick-textured, and the higher-order venation is generally not visible. The peduncles are often articulated near the base. The flowers have not been frequently collected. Specimens of Faramea juruana characteristically dry yellowed or flushed with gray and yellow. Some plants of this species have a distinctive infection of some sort in the flowers, which produces malformed, enlarged, leathery corollas with short lobes that do not open (e.g., Vásquez & Jaramillo 10988).

The name Faramea juruana probably needs lectotypification. The name Faramea rectinervia was synonymized by Taylor (various checklists) with Faramea torquata, but the identity of Faramea juruana is now clearer and Faramea rectinervia is a synonym of this species. The name Faramea phaneroura is here synonymized provisionally with Faramea torquata, but this cold be a synonym of Faramea juruana instead.

Faramea juruana is similar to Faramea boomii, with secondary leaf veins that extend directly to unite with the thickened margins. Faramea jurana is also similar to Faramea torquata, which has thinner-textured leaves with the higher-order venation closely reticulated and raised on the lower surface and smaller fruits. Faramea juruana is also similar to Faramea crassifolia, with smaller leaves on which the venation is not visible and smaller flowers and fruits.