Woody climber to 20 m high. Branchlets densely pubescent with long soft brown hairs. Leaves: petiole 7-13 mm long, densely pubescent with long soft brown hairs; blade spathulate or obovate, 2.5-7.5 by 1.6-3.4 cm, 1.6-2.2 times as long as wide, apex retuse to rounded or apiculate, base cuneate, pubescent beneath with long soft brown hairs, more sparsely so above but denser on midrib, punctate beneath, 14-17 pairs of secondary veins, prominent beneath, weakly prominent above, tertiary venation parallel to the secondary veins, often anastomosing before the intramarginal vein. Inflorescence a short axillary cyme, mostly in both axils of opposite leaves, c. 1 cm long, few-flowered; peduncle up to 2 mm long, densely puberulent; pedicels 1.5-2 mm long, sparsely puberulent to glabrous, bracteoles few at base. Calyx 1.2-1.4 mm long, connate at the base, lobes 0.8-1 by 1.1 mm, 0.7-0.9 times as long as wide, glabrous, ciliate. Corolla (immature) orange; tube c. 5 mm long, glabrous outside, pubescent inside below stamens; lobes only known in bud but have an acuminate apex, glabrous inside and outside. Stamens inserted at c. 2.1 mm from corolla base; filaments c. 0.5 mm long; anthers c. 1.3 by 0.5 mm. Ovary c. 1.3 mm high; style and style head c. 1.6 mm long. Fruit unknown.
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