Abutilon eremitopetalum is a shrub characterized by its close grayish pubescence, which consists of stellate and simple glandular hairs. The leaves are simple and alternate, with deeply cordate-ovate blades measuring 7–12 cm long. The apex of each leaf is acute to acuminate, and the surfaces are grayish-green, covered with stellate and simple glandular hairs. The leaf margins are crenate-dentate. The petioles are about as long as the blades and sometimes pilose with simple hairs. Stipules are usually present. The flowers are solitary or paired in the leaf axils and are exceeded by the leaves. Pedicels measure 1.5-4 cm long and are articulate with the calyx, sometimes pilose with both simple hairs and stellate, glandular pubescence; an involucel is absent. These flowers are bisexual (perfect) and feature a cup-shaped to suburceolate calyx, 1–1.5 cm long, with five dentate lobes, each 1–3 mm long, and pubescent within. The petals are included in the calyx, greenish with brighter green inflexed margins and a reddish lower surface, measuring 0.5–1 cm long and up to 9 mm wide. The stamens are numerous and monadelphous, forming a staminal column 2–2.8 cm long that is exserted, whitish to yellowish, with anthers in a terminal cluster. The ovary is superior, (1-)3-celled to many-celled, with carpels 5 to numerous, and ovules arranged in a vertical row; the style exceeds the staminal column and has coral-colored branches as many as there are carpels; the stigmas are terminal, capitate, green, and scarcely expanded. The fruits are schizocarps that often separate tardily; cylindrical, 8–10 mm long and 10–13 mm in diameter, and pilose. Mericarps are usually oblong in lateral view, 8–9 in number, and 8–10 mm long with an acute apex and smooth lateral walls. Dehiscence is loculicidal, either complete or partial. Seeds are asymmetrically reniform, up to 2.9 mm long, matted with white or brown pubescence, and may or may not contain endosperm. It is found in dry forests at elevations ranging from 210-520 meters.