Sabicea glomerata has closely bullulate leaves with floccose-villous pubescence on the lower surface, glomerulate inflorescences, and well developed calyx limbs. This species is similar to Sabicea trianae, with the leaves smooth or with impressed secondary veins and floccose pubescence on both surfaces.

Khan (2007) included Sabicea glomerata in a broad circumscription of Sabicea camporum, which is not accepted here pending re-evaluation with more material. Sabicea camporum was described based on plants found in seasonal, campo to gallery and scrub vegetation in the Amazon basin of Colombia, Venezuela, and northern Brazil, and this species is here treated to include these plants. Sabicea gtlomerata is found in a biogeographically and ecologically quite distinct region, in the very wet forests of the Pacific coast of Colombia, and it is here separated.

Triana's materials are known for confused labelling and the grouping of various gatherings under one number, and the various specimens of Sabicea glomerata seem to have this problem. At least one of them, at COL, is actually Hamelia patens.