Climbing shrub, 3-4 m. Branchlets densely covered with dark rufous +-appressed bristles (c. 3 mm) at the tips, less densely so or scabrous by the remaining bases of the bristles in the older parts, dark brown when dry. Leaves ovate or elliptic-ovate, gradually acuminate towards the apex, acute, the apical gland small, base rounded or nearly so, coriaceous, stiff, shining especially above, mature ones entirely glabrescent above, laxly to subdensely set with curved, ± patent, dark rufous bristle-like hairs, or ultimately their bases below, more densely so at the somewhat revolute margin, (2-)2.5-4(-4.5) by 1.5-2.3(-2.6) cm, midrib impressed above, slightly prominent beneath, nerves 1-2 pairs from or somewhat above the base of the lamina, curved and high-ascending, very slightly impressed above, obsolete beneath; petiole stout, 1-2 mm. Flowers 1-2 in each of the upper axils, densely covered with long (3-4 mm) rather fine rufous bristles on the pedicels, and the external sides of both the bracteoles and the calyx lobes. Pedicels stoutish, c. 3(-4) mm, basal bracts subulate, minute. Bracteoles ovate, 1.2 mm. Calyx campanulate, lobes narrow-ovate, acuminate, 2 mm. Corolla urceolate, white or cream when fresh, rather thin, glabrous, 5 mm, lobes 2 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, 2 mm; anther-cells 1.4 mm; tubules narrow, 1.2 mm. Ovary densely whitish hairy; style 4 mm. Fruit pale bluish.
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