Epiphyte or sprawling over moss-covered ground; stem c. 50 cm, branched, bark brown-greyish. Branchlets covered with greyish stout bristly hairs, younger parts only with ± spreading reddish brown bristles (2-3 mm). Leaves dense, elliptic, apex broadly acuminate, mostly rather obtuse, though apiculate by a thick protruding gland, base cuneate or rounded, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, shining green on the upper side, much paler and dull underneath when fresh, brownish when dry, laxly set on both faces with ± spreading, strigose, rufous hairs, glabrescent above with age, finally punctate beneath, margin slightly revolute, subentire, with bristle-like hairs (1.5 mm) along the margin, 2-3(-3.5) by 1.3-1.7(-2) cm, midrib a little impressed above, manifestly raised beneath, nerves 1-2 pairs, curved-ascending to the apex of the blade, the lower pair from or nearly from the base of the lamina, all nerves slightly impressed above, somewhat prominent beneath; petiole stout, setulose, c. 3 mm. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary or in twos, rarely also in threes in other axils of the same specimen. Pedicels setose, moreover scurfy or clothed with crisp brown hairs, 2-3(-5) mm. Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, glandular-fimbriate, 1.5 mm. Calyx 5 mm, glabrous, lobes ovate, acute, glandular-fimbriate. Corolla subcampanulate, glabrous, 4 mm, lobes short, reflexed. Filaments linear, wider below the middle, glabrous, c. 2.5 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, 2 mm including the short tubules. Ovary glabrous; style 3.5 mm.
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