[3] Friedrich Markgraf,[4] the botanist who first formally described the species, using the basionym Anechites amazonicus, named it after the area near the Amazon River in Pará Brazil where the specimen he examined was collected by Adolpho Ducke.

Its reddish-brown, slender, cylindrical, tapering branches have glistening, gold-colored warty bumps, and lenticels.

Its many-flowered Inflorescences occur at the junction between the leaves and stem or in terminal positions.

Its inflorescences are slightly to densely covered in reddish-brown soft to velvety hairs.

Its flowers have 5 sepals with egg-shaped to triangular lobes that are slightly to densely covered in soft hairs.

The fruit are covered in velvety rust-colored to brown hairs that are 3–5 millimeters long.