[2] Robert Elias Fries, the botanist who first formally described the species using the basionym Uvaria hexaloboides, named it after a different species Hexalobus monopetalus which he thought its flowers and vegetative parts resembled.

Its petioles are 0.1–0.3 millimeters long, and covered in dense red-brown hairs, with a broad groove on their upper side.

The sepals are densely hairy on both surfaces, and hairier at their margins which are slightly folded.

The yellow to green-yellow, elliptical, outer petals are 2–3.5 by 1-1.4 centimeters with densely hairy upper and lower surfaces.

The yellow to green-yellow, oval inner petals are 1–2.5 by 0.8–1.5 centimeters with densely hairy upper and lower surfaces.

[5] It has been observed growing rocky or red sandy loam soil in woodlands at altitudes between 1000 and 1600 meters.