Terrestrial shrublet, semidecumbent or erect up to 45 cm. Branchlets ± curved-ascending, brown red when fresh, densely set with subappressed, red brown or finally greyish, c. 2 mm long bristles. Leaves condensed at the upper part of the branchlets, subimbricate at the tips, elliptic-oblong, apex subacuminate, subacute, with a thickish terminal gland, base broadly attenuate, subcoriaceous, somewhat shining above, ± dull beneath, glabrous above, subdensely set underneath and along the margin with redbrown bristles, 1-2(-2.5) mm long and with a thickened base, tardily glabrescent, 6-10(-13) by 3-5(-6) mm, edge subserrate-crenulate (the teeth ending in a bristle), midrib a little impressed or inconspicuous above, slightly raised beneath, nerves and veins obscure; petiole setulose, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers solitary in distant upper axils. Pedicels stoutish, bent downwards, 3-4 mm at anthesis, setulose, with 2 or 3 ovate glabrous basal bracteoles (1-1.5 mm), and 2 bracteoles below the calyx. Calyx campanulate, c. 5 mm long in all, 5-partite to almost the base, subdensely rufous-setulose dorsally, lobes elongate-subovate, subacute. Corolla subcampanulate-cylindric, white, membranous, quite glabrous, 7-8 by 3-4 mm, lobes subacute, c. 2.5 mm, finally reflexed distally. Filaments filiform, glabrous, white, 4.5 mm; cells 1.7 mm, brownish, ovate-oblong, echinulate; tubules as long as, but much narrower than the anther-cells, filiform-cylindric, very shortly biaristate at the apex. Ovary laxly hairy, pale green when fresh; style white, glabrous, slender, 7 mm.
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