Erect, subscandent shrub or treelet, up to 4 m. Branchlets subtrigonous and deeply grooved at the youngest, quite glabrous parts. Leaves dense, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, apex shortly acuminate, subacute or bluntish, base broadly attenuate or obtuse, basal glands indistinct, +-rigidly coriaceous, convex above, edge revolute (dry), laxly long-ciliate when young, later glabrous, 1.5-3 by 0.4-0.8(-1) cm, 2-4 mm spaced subserrate-crenulate, midrib +-deeply impressed above, obtusely prominent beneath, nerves 1 basal and 2-3 upper pairs, faintly impressed or obscure above, minutely raised beneath, not rarely inconspicuous, reticulation none; petiole 2-4 by 0.5-1 mm. Flowers 1-3 per fascicle in the upper axils, nodding, glabrous. Pedicels robust, (0.7-)1-1.5 cm. Bracteoles basal. Calyx tube subsemiglobose or almost obconical, 4-5 by 3-4 mm, limb erecto-patent, 3-4 mm, lobes broad-ovate, apiculate, 2-3 mm. Corolla tubular, slightly widened towards the mouth, +-fleshy, glossy, bright red or orange, with white to cream tips, throat pink, 2.8-4 cm by 6 mm ø at base, c. 10 mm across limb (5 by 1.2 cm, fresh), lobes deltoid, 4-5 mm, finally reflexed. Stamens 10-12(-14) and 8.5-10(-12) mm; major stamens: filaments ciliate upwards, c. 4 mm; cells narrow-oblong, base obtuse, echinulate, 8-9(-11) mm including the +-divergent, c. 3 mm long tubules; connective subdensely to laxly long-hairy, or glabrous, a dark ribbon connate with the tubules, or +-evanescent distally. Disk glabrous. Style +-slender, glabrous, 5-8 mm exserted. Fruit blackish, subglobular, c. 8 mm ø.
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