Shrub. Branchlets angular, greyish, with short solitary bristles or finally glabrous. Leaves oblong to subovate-oblong, apex acuminate, the terminal gland rather thick, but not distinctly protruding beyond the leaf-margin, base broad-attenuate to nearly rounded, subcoriaceous, laxly to rather densely clad with short (1 mm) bristles and bristlelike rufous hairs all over the undersurface, entire, margin caducously ciliate (1 mm), (4.5-)6-9(-12) by 2.5-3.5(-5.5) cm, midrib impressed above, dinstinctly raised beneath, nerves 4-5 pairs, the lowest pair nearly from the base, the upper 2-3 pairs curved, the uppermost pair more straight, all anastomosing and very slightly impressed above, rather indistinct beneath; petiole laxly setulose initially, glabrescent, 5-7 by 1.5-2 mm. Flowers 8-9 per fascicle. Pedicels stoutish, densely rusty-tomentose by rather short crisped hairs, 5-8 mm at anthesis, up to 10 mm in fruit, basal bracts small, subulate, tomentose. Bracteoles broad-ovate, obtuse, densely rusty-tomentose externally, glabrous inside, c. 2 mm. Calyx 2.5 mm, glabrous, lobes broad-ovate, obtuse, tomentulose at the margin, 2 mm. Corolla short-campanulate, green, glabrous, 6 by 4-5 mm, lobes triangular, obtuse, 1.5 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, 2 mm; anther-cells oblong, 1.5 mm; tubules slender, 0.7 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 4.5 mm.
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