High climbing or sometimes epiphytic shrub, c. 3 m. Branchlets velutinous. Leaves lax, lanceolate-elliptic, apex shortly acutely acuminate, base cuneate, basal glands covered by hairs or indistinct, coriaceous, initially laxly hairy on both faces, glabrescent above, 5(-7)-plinerved from and a little from above the base, entire, 10-18 by 2-3.5 cm, midrib and nerves slightly prominent above, strongly so beneath, reticulation lax, somewhat raised especially beneath; petiole 5-7 by c. 2 mm. Racemes axillary, densely yellowish or brownish velutinous, 6-12-flowered; rachis robust, 5-6 cm. Pedicels c. 1.5 by 0.2 cm. Bracteoles halfway. Calyx tube +-semi-globose, c. 3 mm, limb much spreading, 2-3 mm, shallowly 5-denticulate. Corolla cylindrical, c. 3 by 0.6-0.9 cm, white, lobes erect, deltoid, c. 4 mm. Stamens 14-16 and 11-13 mm; major stamens: filaments c. 5 mm, upwards densely appressed-hirsutulous; cells elongate-oblong, with a short anchor-like +-bearded dorsal appendage at base, very base pointed and slightly curved inward, c. 9 mm long including the narrow, +-divergent, c. 3 mm long tubules; processes hirsutulous, inserted +-behind the tubules, free and ± divergent in the upper part, exceeding the tubules by 3-4 mm. Disk densely hairy. Style slenderly columnar, with sparse, long, appressed hairs, +-exceeding the corolla.
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