Shrub or treelet, up to 3 m. Branches virgate. Branchlets trigonous, greyish corticate, younger parts brownish reddish, tips densely patently papillose-puberulous, sometimes with some ± scattered bristle-like short hairs, which are slightly clavate or gland-tipped, no true bristles present. Leaves various in shape (also in the same specimen), lanceolate-elliptic or obovate-elliptic to obovate, apex broad-acuminate to rounded, the terminal gland thickish, distinctly prominent, base ± cuneate, subcoriaceous or coriaceous, glabrous and mostly a little shining above, laxly blackish punctulate and +-dull beneath, very slightly revolute at the somewhat cartilaginous margin, minutely glandular-crenulate, with some marginal ± caducous bristles, practically entire, (1.5-)2—5.3 by 0.7-2.5 cm, midrib slightly impressed above, +-flat beneath, nerves 2-3 pairs ascendent, very slightly sunken above, +-raised beneath; petiole grooved, glabrescent, 2-4(-6) mm. Flowers 2-3(-5) per fascicle, occasionally also solitary in the same specimen. Pedicels rather stoutish, laxly puberulous and with some short crisped glandular hairs, 1.5-3 mm at anthesis, glabrescent and up to 6 mm in fruit. Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, muriculate-fimbriate and ciliolate, c. 1 mm. Calyx contracted at the base, c. 2.5 mm, glabrous or nearly so, lobes ovate, subacute, glandular-muriculate or fimbriate, 1.5 mm. Corolla subcampanulate or broad-tubular, white, glabrous, 6-7 mm, lobes ovate, obtuse, reflexed, 1.5 mm. Filaments linear, slightly curved, papillose, 3.5 mm; anther-cells oblong, granular, 1.5 mm; tubules rather narrow, 1.5 mm. Ovary glabrous; style c. 4 mm.
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