Shrubs evergreen, ca. 0.7 m tall. Branches dark gray, robust, at first sparsely appressed brownish pubescent; leaf scars reniform. Leaves alternate; petiole 2-5 mm, glabrous; leaf blade brownish green abaxially, narrowly oblong-elliptic, 5-11.2 × (1-)1.5-3.8 cm, thickly leathery, adaxially rugose, glabrous except for ciliate margins and apical tuft of hairs, base cuneate-decurrent, margin revolute, apex acute or subobtuse; lateral veins 5-9 per side of midrib. Inflorescences terminal on reduced lateral branches, 5-15-flowered; peduncle to 12 mm, densely rusty pubescent, or absent; bracts narrowly oblanceolate to elliptic, 10-16 × 2.5-3.5 mm, apex acute or rarely obuse, with apical tuft of hairs. Pedicel absent. Calyx white; tube cylindric, ca. 8 × 3 mm, exterior appressed brownish pubescent; lobes 4, narrowly ovate, ca. 4 × 1-2 mm, sparsely pubescent, apex slightly acuminate. Stamens 8, lower whorl inserted at middle of calyx tube, upper whorl in throat; filaments ca. 0.5 mm; anthers oblong, ca. 1.5 mm, upper ones ca. 1/2 exserted from calyx tube. Disk cupshaped, ca. 0.5 mm, margin entire. Ovary shortly stipitate, ellipsoid, ca. 1.5 × 0.7 mm, glabrous; style ca. 0.3 mm; stigma capitate. Fruit not seen.
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