Small epiphytic shrub, 1.2-1.5(-2) m. Branches +-pendent, subterete, glabrous. Branchlets very slender, angular, brownish when dry, densely covered with a fine, spreading puberulence, moreover whether or not provided with scattered short bristles at the tips. Leaves lanceolate-ovate, apex caudate-acuminate, often somewhat falcate, acute, the terminal gland very small, base broadly attenuate to rounded, firmly chartaceous to subcoriaceous, margin slightly revolute, entire or nearly so, sometimes with a few +-persistent marginal bristles, (2.5-)3-5(-6) by (1-)1.2-1.7(-2.1) cm, midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 1-2 pairs from and somewhat from above the base of the lamina, i.e. 3-5-plinerved to the top, nerves slightly sunken above or raised beneath, often +-inconspicuous as are other higher nerves or veins, raising straight from the upper half of the midrib; petiole glabrous, grooved, 2-3 mm. Flowers axillary, mostly solitary, rarely in twos. Pedicel slender, rufescent-papillose or nearly glabrous, c. 2 mm at anthesis. Bracteoles ovate, glandular-ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx attenuate at the base, c. 3.5 mm, glabrous or very slightly puberulous, lobes ovate, glandular-ciliolate, 2 mm. Corolla urceolate, cream to whitish, sometimes purpurascent especially at the limb, 4 by 2.5 mm, lobes short, 0.5 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, 2.5 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, granular, 1.5-2 mm including the very short tubules. Ovary glabrous; style 2 mm. Fruit reported both as cream or white and dark purple, c. 4 mm ø, fruit-pedicel c. 4 mm.
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