Epiphytic shrublet, up to 30 cm. Branchlets terete, slender, dark rufous-subappressed-setulose (1.5-2 mm) and densely patently greyish puber-ulent. Leaves ovate-elliptic or elliptic, sometimes ovate or broadly elliptic-ovate, apex short-acuminate, the very apex rather obtuse, the terminal gland small, not or slightly protracted, base mostly broad-attenuate, rarely rounded, subcoriaceous, stiff, flat, glabrous above, shortly and laxly setulose beneath initially, or dark brown-punctate in later stages, minutely crenulate, each tooth ending in a fine ± caducous bristle, margin not revolute, (13-)15-20 by (6-)7-13 mm, tripli-or irregularly faintly 5-nerved from and from somewhat above the base, midrib and nerves sunken above and beneath, the latter sometimes less distinct or hardly visible; petiole slender, setulose, 1-2 mm. Flowers solitary. Pedicels nearly glabrous, 1-2 mm, basal bracts minute. Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, ciliate, 0.7 mm. Calyx glabrous, 2 mm, lobes deltoid-ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, 1 mm. Corolla campanulate, glabrous, c. 4.5 mm, lobes reflexed, c. 1.3 mm. Filaments linear, broadened disk-like above the base, glabrous, S-curved, 2 mm; anthers sagittate, anther-cells ovate, very granular, 1 mm; tubules narrow, pipe-like, 1 mm. Ovary subdensely pubescent; style 3 mm.
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