Scandent or epiphytic shrub, entirely glabrous. Branchlets slender, terete, smooth, laxly foliate. Leaves elliptic, apex rounded or obtuse, base attenuate, with a pair of strictly basal marginal glands, coriaceous, shining, edge revolute, 5-7 by 2.5-3.5 cm, nerves 1-2 basal or slightly supra-basal, and 1-2 upper pairs, all curved-ascending and anastomosing, rather prominent; reticulation lax; petiole 5-7 by 1 mm. Flowers in pairs. Pedicels slender, c. 1.5 cm, with 2 minute bracteoles. Calyx tube cylindrical, base obtuse, c. 1.5 mm, limb broadly 5-dentate, c. 0.5 mm. Corolla cylindric, c. 3 mm, lobes broadly ovate, 0.5 mm. Stamens 10; filaments linear, laxly patently hairy, 1.7 mm; cells broad-oblong, c. 0.6 mm; tubules narrow-cylindric, 0.4 mm, obliquely cut apically, the pore small. Style with a club-shaped apex, c. 2.5 mm. Fruit c. 5 mm ø, black when dry, the calyx lobes broad, short, apiculate. Seeds c. 25 per fruit, brownish, pitted, c. 1.5 mm.
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