It is native to Angola, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.

Its slender, branching stems are up to 8 meters long are covered in soft hairs.

Its fleshy, egg-shaped to elliptical leaves are 10–60 by 5–30 millimeters and covered both surfaces in soft hairs.

Its 5 bright to light green petals are fused at the base forming a ribbed, cylindrical to bell-shaped, 4–6 millimeter-long tube.

The egg-shaped petal lobes are 6–12 by 3–5 millimeters with tips that are pointed to blunt and margins that are folded back.

The flowers have slender, cylindrical styles that are 2–3 millimeters long with a blunt stigma.

[6] It has been observed growing dry savanna in sandy, or loamy or clay-loam soils at elevations up to 1700 meters.