Mostly epiphytic shrub, or small tree up to 1.5 m, stems often several in a clump up to 2 cm ø, with smooth grey bark. Branchlets slender to rather robust, glabrous throughout, or not rarely with a fine patent puberulence on the youngest parts, laxly foliate. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, rarely lanceolate-ovate, apex rather markedly acuminate, base rounded to broadly cuneately attenuate, ± fleshy when fresh, coriaceous and brittle when dry, laxly set with small prominent warts on both faces, edge slightly revolute, (5-)10-15 by (2-)2.5-4.5(-6) cm, 5-7-plinerved from and from somewhat (up to 5 mm) above the base, with another similarly curved-ascending pair leaving the midrib at 1-2 cm distance from the base, all nerves extending to almost the top of the lamina and anastomosing there, prominent on both faces especially beneath, veins ± transverse, numerous, forming a rather lax and slightly raised network with the less distinct veinlets; petiole rugulose, 3-6(-7) by 1.5-2 mm, with a pair of large lateral glands a little above the middle. Fascicles 2-5-flowered, glabrous. Pedicels slender, 3-4(-5) mm, each with a pair of small bracteoles. Calyx tube cylindric, shining, base obtuse, 2 mm, limb sub-erect, 5-partite to almost the base, lobes ovate-acuminate, c. 1 mm. Corolla broad-or subcampa-nulate-urceolate, white, c. 2.5 mm, lobes broadly ovate, c. 1 mm. Stamens 10; filaments laxly hairy, c. 0.8 mm; cells oblong, 0.7 mm; tubules gradually narrowed upwards, 0.5 mm, with oblique, rather narrow slits. Style glabrous, 1.5-2 mm. Fruit 4-5 mm ø, crowned by the calyx lobes and a small, annular disk. Seeds obscurely trigonous, dark brown, 1.5 mm, minutely pitted.
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