Epiphytic shrub. Branchlets terete, very slender, subdensely covered with fine, rufous, bristle-like hairs (1-1.5 mm) and very densely with spreading, short, brownish, fine hairs. Leaves broad-ovate to suborbicular-ovate, apex +-rounded, the terminal gland ± indistinct, base slightly though manifestly cordate, subcoriaceous, laxly clad with caducous short bristle-like hairs on both faces when young, +-glabrous with age above, +-persistently blackish brownish punctate beneath, margin finely crenulate, the teeth with rather longish caducous bristles, (4-)5-8(-10) by (4-)7(-8) mm, midrib slightly impressed above, obscure beneath, one pair of nerves high curved-ascendent, very slightly impressed above or hardly visible above only; petiole setulose, 1-1.5 mm. Stipule-like axillary perulae fuscous, subulate, +-persistent, c. 1.5 mm. Flowers axillary solitary. Pedicels rather stoutish, nearly glabrous, 2(-3) mm. Bracteoles broad-ovate, obtuse, glabrous, ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx contracted at the base, 2.5 mm, glabrous, lobes broad-ovate, rather obtuse, ciliolate, c. 1.7 mm. Corolla sub-campanulate, rather firm, c. 6 by 4 mm, glabrous, flesh-coloured (or white?), lobes nearly 2 mm. Filaments linear, a little dilated above the base, glabrous, S-curved, 2.5 mm; anthers sagittate, 3 mm in all; anther-cells very granular; tubules slender, 1.3 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 4 mm.
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