Small epiphytic glabrous shrub. Branches terete, the greyish cork fissured longitudinally. Branchlets reddish brown, angular, wrinkled, minutely puberulous under a lens, densely foliate. Leaves elliptic to slightly obovate-elliptic, apex rounded, base broadly attenuate or subcuneate, a little de-current on the petiole with the contracted very base of the blade, the pair of glands found there or at the apex of the petiole, coriaceous, shining, edge hardly recurved, 1.4-2.2 by 0.6-1.1 cm, distinctly 3-or faintly 5-plinerved, the pair of main nerves curved-ascending and anastomosing with the midrib a little below the very apex, ± raised on both faces especially underneath, veins numerous, ± transverse from the midrib, often hardly visible, reticulation rather obscure; petiole ± flattened, 1-2 mm. Flowers solitary. Pedicels rather slender, glabrous, 2-6 mm, with several minute ovate bracteoles. Calyx tube cup-shaped or short-cylindric, base rounded, c. 1 mm, limb erect and deeply 5-partite, lobes deltoid, 0.5 mm. Corolla known in bud only, white. Stamens apparently 10; filaments linear, laxly hairy, 0.7 mm; cells oblong, 0.5 mm; tubules c. 1/3 as narrow as are the cells, obliquely cut distally, 0.6 mm. Style c. 2 mm (or perhaps longer?). Fruit shining, c. 3 mm ø. Seeds pitted, c. 1.2 mm.
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