Small shrub, terrestrial or epiphytic. Branches terete, glabrous, divergent. Branchlets slender, both laxly to densely subpatently rufous-setulose and densely patent-puberulous. Leaves ovate, apex subcaudate-acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland small, base broad-attenuate to rounded, coriaceous, rather stiff, flat, glabrous above, with scattered, subappressed, blackish short (1 mm) bristles, or finally punctulate by their remaining bases, indistinctly crenulate especially in the upper half of the lamina, the teeth extending into caducous, very slender bristles (1-1.5 mm) which are persistent for a long time, (1.5-)2-3(-4) by (1-)1.2-1.8(-2.2) cm, midrib impressed above in its entire length, slightly raised beneath, nerves 3-4 pairs, the lower 1-2 pairs from or from above the base of the lamina, ascendent and slightly impressed above, other 2-3 higher pairs from the midrib and less distinct, these very slightly impressed above or altogether inconspicuous on both sides; petiole setulose, 1.5-2 mm. Stipule-like axillary perulae subulate, as long as the petiole, ciliate, +-persistent. Flowers solitary axillary, subsessile. Pedicels glabrous, at anthesis hardly 1 mm, up to 2.5 mm in fruit. Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, glabrous, ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx 2.5 mm, contracted at the base, glabrous, lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, c. 1.8 mm. Corolla campanulate, tender, white, glabrous, 5(-6) mm, lobes obtuse, 1 mm. Filaments linear, dilated above the base, S-curved, 2.5 mm; anthers sagittate, echinulate, 2.5 mm including the slender tubules. Ovary glabrous; style 3.5-4 mm.
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