Terrestrial, semiprostrate or subscandent shrublet, 10-50 cm. Branchlets angular at the tips, light brown, terete and glabrous below, laxly set with squamular leaflets below, early covered with a thin cork. Leaves mostly obovate-elliptic or obovate, or elliptic, apex mostly blunt or rounded or shortly acuminate and subacute, base cuneate, thinly coriaceous, glabrous except some scattered redbrown glandular hairs or their point-like bases, subserrate-crenulate, (1-)1.3-2(-2.5,-5) by 0.7-1.4 (-2) cm, midrib slightly immersed above, prominent beneath, nerves 2 basal pairs and 2-3 from upper part of midrib, rather obscure above, visibly raised beneath, and arches connected with the rather dense reticulation, the latter +-prominent beneath; petiole stoutish, ± flattened, 1(-2) mm, on a thickish cushion decurrent along the twig. Flowers 1(-2) in the axils of the upper normal or lower reduced (squamular) leaves. Pedicels glabrous, red, 5-7 mm. Bracteoles ± halfway. Calyx tube turbinate, 5-ribbed or-winged, red or brownish red, glabrous or with sparse shortly stalked glands, 3-4 mm long, limb 2 mm high, 5-lobed nearly to the base, lobes deltoid, subacute. Corolla tubular, slightly 5-angled, white, or pink with white tips, or cream suffused with pink, glabrous or with a stalked setular gland here and there at the angles, (1.3-)1.5-1.7(-2) cm, 4-5(-6) mm ø, including lobes 1.5-2 mm. Stamens as long as the corolla; filaments glabrous, 8-10(-11) mm; anther-cells much recurved at base, granular, 2 mm; tubules as wide as the cells, c. 4 mm, slits almost to the base. Disk glabrous. Style glabrous, 1.5-1.8 cm.
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