Epiphytic shrub, low, with several generally not branched slender stems from a woody clump. Upper parts of the stems or branchlets often crooked, with short internodes, laxly to subdensely foliate, glabrous except the finely puberulent tips. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate or narrow-elliptic, apex gradually narrowed, mostly obtuse or rounded, base obtuse, coriaceous, glabrous, edge slightly thickened,(2.5-)4-6(-7) by (0.5-)1-1.5(-2) cm, 5-plinerved, nerves erect-ascending to nearly the top of the lamina and anastomosing there, slightly raised on both sides, transversal veins and reticulation faint; petiole 2-4 by 1-1.5 mm, with a conspicuous gland on each side at or a little above the middle. Flowers 1-2(-4), glabrous, the filaments excepted. Pedicels rather robust, thickened upwards, 4-5 mm in anthesis, with a few minute bracteoles. Calyx tube cup-shaped, base subtruncate, 1-1.5 mm, limb deeply 5-lobed, lobes erect, triangular, acute, 0.7 mm. Corolla cylindric, white or pink, c. 2.5 mm, 5-partite halfway, lobes blunt. Stamens 5; filaments patently hirtellous distally, 1.5 mm; cells elongate, 0.8 mm; tubules erect, 0.7 mm. Disk small. Style 1.5-2 mm. Fruit white, c. 4 mm ø, constricted below the sub-erect or incurved calyx lobes; fruit-pedicel 0.6-0.8 cm.
In forest, also in Agathis-forest on waterlogged, sandy and acid soil, 300-1200 m.
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