Epiphytic shrub. Branchlets subterete, glabrous. Leaves scattered, ovate-lanceolate, apex obtusely acuminate, base rounded, glands minute, thin-coriaceous, glabrous, very laxly glandular-punctate beneath, edge minutely dented or sub-entire, (10-)12-15 by (4-)5-6.5 cm, 5-plinerved from and from above the base, midrib and nerves slightly immersed above, prominent beneath, reticulation rather lax, faintly raised beneath; petiole 5-8 by 1.5 mm. Inflorescences short, 5-8-flowered racemes; rachis c. 1.5 cm. Pedicels 7-10 by c. 1 mm, glabrous or slightly pubescent. Calyx glabrous or laxly short-pubescent, tube narrowly cup-shaped, 3 mm, base subtruncate, limb erecto-patent, 2 mm, shallowly and obtusely 5-lobed halfway. Corolla cylindric, fleshy, greenish whitish, glabrous, 2.5 cm by 8 mm in dry, c. 3.1 cm by 8-9 mm in fresh specimens, lobes triangular, c. 5 mm. Stamens 9 and 7 mm (14 and 9 mm in fresh state); major stamens: filaments shortly hairy and ciliate in the upper part, c. 4 mm; cells oblong, base obtuse, 7(-8) mm including the ± divergent, 2.5 mm long tubules; processes fixed behind the tubules as a dark glabrous ribbon, free in their uppermost part and slightly surpassing the tubules. Disk glabrous. Style slender, glabrous, distinctly exserted at anthesis.
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