Shrub or small tree. Branchlets angular, brownish when young, glabrous. Leaves obovate, apex obtuse or mostly rounded, the terminal gland thick and protruding, base cuneate into the petiole, coriaceous, rather shining above, +-dull beneath, glabrous, but laxly minutely punctate beneath, impressed-punctulate in the +-revolute margin, practically entire, 2.5-6 by (1.1-)2-3 cm, midrib impressed above, strongly raised beneath, 3-5-plinerved, nerves slightly impressed above, ± inconspicuous beneath; petiole semiterete, grooved, stout, glabrous, 3-4(-5) mm. Flowers 1 or 2 per axil. Pedicels rather stoutish, sparsely muriculate, (7-)9—13 mm, basal bracts few, small. Bracteoles ovate-acuminate, glabrous, muriculate-ciliate, c. 2 mm. Calyx rather abruptly attenuate at the base, c. 6 mm, lobes erect, subovate, acuminate, muricu-late-verruculose dorsally, with an apical tuft of very short hairs, c. 4 mm. Corolla ± tubular, somewhat contracted at the base and slightly widened towards the mouth, glabrous, rose or white, 9-11 by c. 5 mm (in the middle), lobes recurved, c. 2 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, c. 8 mm; anther-cells oblong, c. 2 mm; tubules narrow, 1.8 mm. Ovary sparsely brownish hairy; style 9 mm. Fruit said to be dull purplish blue.
In forest, 'resarri' (= Gleichenia) zone, occasionally epiphytic, 2000-2950 m. Fl. April-June, fr.--08.
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