Epiphytic shrub, slender, with pendent branches, 30-50 cm. Branchlets very slender, very densely clothed with rather fine rufous-brown patent bristles (3-4 mm) only. Leaves ovate, apex short acuminate, it obtuse, the apical gland small and not very prominent, base ± rounded, subcoriaceous, glabrescent above the midrib and base of the blade excepted, densely and apparently ± persistently patent-setulose (2-3 mm) beneath and along the margin, entire, remaining flat when dry, not revolute, 2-3 by (1.2-)1.3—1.9 cm, midrib slightly grooved above, prominent beneath, nerves 2-3 distant pairs, curved-ascending, very slightly impressed above or mostly as ± obscure as beneath; petiole slender, 2-3 mm, densely setulose. Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicels rather slender, 4-5 mm at flowering time, finally up to 7 mm, densely patently rufous-setulose, basal bract minute. Bracteoles ovate, setulose dorsally, 1 mm. Calyx 3 mm, densely and very patently rufous-setulose (c. 4 mm), lobes ovate, subacute, c. 2 mm. Corolla white, shortly and broadly subcylindric-campanulate or depressedly urceolate, 5 by 6(-8) mm, rather densely clothed in the upper ⅔ with appressed rufous bristle-like hairs, which are crisped at the tips, glabrous towards the base, lobes deltoid, obtuse, erect, with two purple spots when fresh, c. 1.5 mm. Filaments linear, somewhat broadened above the base, c. 2 mm; anther-cells ovate-oblong, minutely echinulate, 1.3 mm; tubules rather narrow, c. 0.7 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 3 mm.
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