Small slender shrub, or often large climber on tall forest trees, not properly epiphytic, although adventitious roots are produced from the stem, with sparse long, pendent, profusely flowering branches. Branchlets angular and ± densely hairy in younger, subterete and glabrescent in older parts. Leaves narrow-elliptic or oblong to ovate-lanceolate, apex mostly shortly subcaudate-acuminate, subacute, base mostly attenuate, rarely +-rounded, basal glands not much conspicuous, coriaceous, initially short-hairy, es pecially beneath, glabrescent and +-glossy later, laxly and very shortly glandular-subsetulose or-punctate beneath, entire, 7-15(-24) by 2.5-5(-8) cm, 5-plinerved, midrib and nerves +-impressed above, +-prominent beneath, reticulation obscure; flush pinkish brown (fresh); petiole initially pubescent, 6-10(-15) by 2(-2.5) mm. Very short racemes or clusters from defoliate axils, rarely axillary, (5-) 8-15-flowered, shortly grey-pubescent; rachis 1-2.5 cm. Pedicels reddish, +-slender, 1.5-2(-3) cm, bracteoles in lower third or +-halfway. Calyx tube subobconical to semi-globose, reddish (fresh), 2-3(-4) mm, limb spreading, 2 mm, shallowly 5-dented. Corolla campanulate, 5-lobed to ⅓, thin-fleshy, subdensely greyish puberulous, red to pale pink, 1.5-2 cm, c. 5 mm ø at base, c. 1.5 cm across limb. Stamens (8-)9-10 and (6-)7-8 mm; major stamens: filaments hirsutulous distally, c. 5 mm; cells oblong, confluent at base into a short beak, 6(-7) mm including the ear-shaped, divergent, 2 mm long tubules; processes connate, hairy, ± equalling the tubules. Disk tomentellous. Style slender, c. 2.5 cm, ± exserted, glabrous or papillate apically, very rarely ± pubescent. Fruit subglobose, top truncate, pubescent, 7-8 mm ø.
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