Shrub. Branchlets terete in the older, greyish corticate and defoliate (6-8 mm ø) parts which bear big rounded scars, angular in the younger, more slender (3-5 mm ø) ones which are exclusively clad with scattered bristles (2-3 mm). Leaves oblong to obovate, sometimes obovate-elliptic, apex short-acuminate to broad-attenuate or rounded, the terminal gland very thick and protruding, base cuneate into the petiole, rigidly coriaceous, margin ± revolute, minutely crenulate or entire, glabrous above, rather densely blackish punctate beneath (bristles very early caducous, not to be seen in rather young leaves), (7-)8—13 by (3.5-)4-7.5 cm, midrib slightly impressed above, very thick and prominent beneath, main nerves in 3-4 distinct pairs, curved-ascending and ± anastomosing, slightly impressed above, raised beneath, other higher and shorter nerves or veins ± less distinct or obscure; petiole grooved above, winged in its upper part by the decurrent lamina, c. 1 by 0.3 cm. Flowers both from the foliate and defoliate axils, 4-8 per fascicle. Pedicels stout, densely ferrugineous-crisped-pubescent (not properly setulose), 7-10(-12) mm, basal bracts numerous, ovate to lanceolate, acute, ferrugineous-crisped-pubescent, 2-4 mm. Bracteoles ovate, subacute, very shortly glandular-fimbriate and ciliolate, externally ferrugineous-pubescent, (2-)2.5-3 mm. Calyx contracted at the base, glabrous or very shortly rufous-hairy at the lobes, 4-4.5 mm, lobes deltoid, subacute, reflexed at anthesis, shortly glandular-fimbriate, 2 mm. Corolla subcampanulate, slightly constricted both at the base and the limb, 6 by 4-5 mm, glabrous, green, lobes erect, c. 2 mm. Filaments linear, somewhat dilated above the base, papillose, 3-3.5 mm; anther-cells ovate-oblong, incurved at the base, echinulate, c. 2.5 mm; tubules rather narrow, 1.3 mm. Ovary glabrous; style c. 5 mm.
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