Cyanea eleeleensis is a shrub in the Campanulaceae (bellflower) family, 1.8 m (6 ft) tall with glabrous (hairless) stems. Leaves are oblanceolate (longer than wide, with widest point above the middle), 38.5 to 40.5 cm (15 to 16 in) long and 11.5 cm (4.5 in) wide, with the upper surface green and the lower surface pale green. The inflorescence is 11- to 20-flowered and densely short-pubescent. Calyx lobes are triangular, 4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.2 in) long, and 3 mm (0.1 in) wide. The corolla is bilabiate (two-lipped) and tubed, 46 to 47 mm (1.8 to 1.9 in) long, purple with lighter longitudinal stripes, with a ventral (front or inward) lip cut to its middle into three linear lobes. Berries are subglobose (almost spherical), 12 mm (0.5 in) long, 14 mm (0.6 in) in diameter, purple, and crowned by persistent calyx lobes. Seeds are unknown.