[3] James Sinclair, the Scottish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Taiping a city in Perak, Malaysia where the specimen he examined was collected.

The young, yellow to brown branches are densely hairy, but become hairless with maturity.

Its densely hairy petioles are 5 by 1.5-4 millimeters with a broad groove on their upper side.

Its solitary Inflorescences occur on branches, and are organized on very densely hairy peduncles that are 1.5 by 1 millimeters.

The yellow, egg-shaped, outer petals are 2.5 by 2.5 millimeters with hairless upper and very densely hairy lower surfaces.

The inner surface of the inner petals has a solitary, smooth, slightly raised, irregularly shaped gland.

[6] It has been observed growing in dense forests below mountains at elevations up to 1400 meters.