Epiphytic low shrub with thick roots, glabrous in all outer parts. Branchlets dark red, rather slender, often crooked and the nodes approximate up to 1 cm, subdensely leaved. Leaves erect, elliptic, apex rounded or slightly retuse, base very broadly attenuate to rounded, coriaceous though easily breakable in fresh state, pale green and glossy above, paler and dull beneath, edge somewhat thickened, (2.6-)4-7 by 2.5-4.5(-5.5) cm, 5-(sub 7-) plinerved from and a little from above the base, nerves curved-ascending, anastomosing near the top of the lamina, with sometimes one additional upper pair of nerves from the lower half of the midrib, all slightly raised on both faces as is the midrib, veins ± transverse, forming a rather lax network with the even less visible veinlets; petiole (2-)3-6(-7) by 1.5-2 mm, bearing a conspicuous little flattish or excavate gland on each side at about the middle. Fascicles (2-)4-flowered, arising from a kind of low cushion (1 mm), which consists of numerous minute ovate-acuminate imbricate perulae. Pedicel rather slender, red, 9-12 mm, with a pair of bracteoles. Calyx tube cup-shaped, 1.5 mm, limb low, 5-lobed, lobes erect, triangular, acute, gland-apiculate, 0.5 mm. Corolla subcampanulate, 5-partite to almost ⅔, thin, white, c. 3.5 mm, lobes erect, narrow oblong-triangular,dz recurved. Stamens 5, alternating with the corolla lobes; filaments very laxly hairy upwards, c. 0.7 mm; cells oblong, 1.5 mm; tubules erect, gradually tapering to the apex, set with subclavate papillae below, 1.5 mm, dehiscent with a minute pore. Disk small. Style c. 3.5 mm. Fruit c. 4 mm ø, crowned by the ± inflexed calyx lobes, apparently 4-5-celled, white or pale green, possibly red at full maturity, on pedicel up to 2.3 cm. Seeds few, oblongoid, 1.5-2 mm; testa reticulate.
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