Low terrestrial or epiphytic shrub, rarely treelet. Branchlets subterete, older parts greyish corticate, tips reddish brown when dry, completely glabrous. Leaves oblong to obovate-oblong, apex obtuse or rarely shortly broad-attenuate or slightly emarginate, the terminal gland thick and prominent, base rather shortly cuneate into the petiole, +-coriaceous, rigid, dark glossy green and glabrous above, dull and laxly blackish punctulate all over the undersurface, entire, margin somewhat cartilaginous and pale, indistinctly impressed-crenulate, the crenulations provided with early caducous bristles in the very young leaf, slightly or not revolute, (3.5-)4-6(-7) by (0.8-)1-1.8(-2.5) cm, 3-5-plinerved, midrib distinctly impressed above, or prominent beneath, the lowest pairs of plinerves somewhat from above the base of the lamina, high curved-ascending to the top, other nerves pinnately from the midrib and +-curved, all ± manifestly impressed above, but sometimes only faintly so, nearly inconspicuous beneath; petiole glabrous, 2-4 by 0.6-1 mm. Flowers solitary or in twos in the upper axils, 3(-4) per fascicle in the lower ones. Pedicels laxly clad with short, glandular hairs or fine bristles, otherwise very short pubescent, or rather glabrous,at anthesis 2-3 mm, a little accrescent in fruit, basal bracts few, minute. Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, glabrous, subglandular-ciliate, 1 mm. Calyx 2 mm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate, obtuse, shortly subglandular-fimbriate. Corolla subglobose-ureeolate, rather fleshy, 3-4.5 by 2.5 mm, white (pinkish in bud), lobes 0.5 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, slightly inflexed below, c. 3 mm; anthers oblong, ± granular, c. 1.8 mm, the short tubules included. Ovary glabrous; style 2.5 mm. Fruit subglobose, purplish, c. 3 mm ø when nearly ripe.
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