Low, epiphytic shrub, (0.3-)1-2 m. Branches pendent, slender, greyish, laxly setose. Branchlets very slender, densely clothed with long (2-3 mm) +-appressed golden-brown or rusty bristles. Leaves ± ovate or oblong-ovate, rather densely arranged, apex short-acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland small, slightly protracted, base rounded or sometimes broadly attenuate, ± coriaceous, rather stiff and concave when dry, dark green and shining above, juvenile ones laxly setulose above, becoming soon glabrous, but remaining somewhat rough to the touch, undersurface persistently laxly to subdensely covered with long (1-2 mm) ± obliquely patent brown bristles, more densely so along the revolute margin and the petiole, (1-)1.5-2.5(-3) by (0.6-)0.8-1.5 cm, midrib impressed above, slightly prominent beneath, nerves 1-2 pairs, high-ascending, very slightly impressed above, or indistinct on both faces; petiole 1-2.5 mm. Flowers solitary in the upper axils, sometimes also in twos, densely longish rufous-setulose on the pedicels, the bracteoles and the back of the calyx. Pedicels stoutish, (2-)3-5(-6) mm, basal bracts minute and glabrous. Bracteoles ovate, glabrous inside, 2 mm. Calyx 5-6(-7) mm, 5-lobed to nearly its base, lobes ovate-acuminate, minutely adpressed-hairy or nearly glabrous inside. Corolla cupular-campanulate, white to pale violet, also cream-green, 0.8 by 1-1.2 cm in fresh, 5-8 mm in dry specimens, lobes 5 broad-ovate c. 3 mm, outside laxly to subdensely hairy in the upper half especially at the lobes, glabrous along the commissures and the lower half as well as inside. Filaments subulate, glabrous, 2.5-3 mm; anther-cells ovate-oblong to ovate, slightly granular, 1 mm; tubules slender, 1-1.5 mm. Ovary laxly yellowish hairy; style green, 4-5 mm. Fruit said to be blue-black.
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