Epiphytic, climbing or decumbent shrub, c. 2 m. Branchlets greyish corticate, glabrescent, young shoots very densely clad with rufous, patent, bristle-like hairs (2-3 mm). Leaves ovate to sub-oblong-ovate, apex gradually acuminate, subacute, slightly curved, the terminal gland small, base rounded to subcordate, or sometimes nearly truncate, firmly subcoriaceous, the very young ones longish rufous-or golden-brown-hairy on both faces, glabrescent and becoming scabrous with age, finally glabrous above, rather densely ± patently long-setulose beneath, especially on the midrib and along the margin, entire or sub-denticulate by the persistent bases of the marginal bristles, 5-9(-10) by (2.3-)3-4.5(-5.5) cm, midrib and nerves impressed above, the first markedly, the latter less distinctly prominent beneath, nerves 6-7 pairs curved-ascending and inarching in some distance from the edge; petiole patent-rufous-setose, stoutish, 4-6 mm. Flowers axillary, 2-4 per fascicle, or rarely solitary. Pedicels slender, densely covered with (2-)3-4(-5) mm long bristle-like rufous hairs as are the bracteoles and the calyx outside, (8-)10-13 mm, basal bracts small, scariose. Bracteoles ovate, 1 mm. Calyx campanulate, 3.5-4 mm, lobes triangular, subacute, c. 2 mm. Corolla narrow-campanulate, cream, pale green or mostly slate blue to brownish purple, lobes pink to purplish, inner base greenish, somewhat fleshy, very densely covered outside with longish ferrugineous and ± crisped, not setose hairs, glabrous inside, 6-7 mm, lobes acutish, 2.5 mm. Filaments subulate, glabrous, 3.5 mm; anther-cells very granular, 2.8 mm; tubules rigid, 1.2 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 5 mm. Fruit greenish purplish, c. 3.5 mm ø.
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