Small shrub, whether or not epiphytic. Branches greyish corticate. Branchlets slender, red-brown, laxly clothed with ± appressed slender bristles and more densely with fine, spreading short hairs. Leaves elliptic or obovate-elliptic, sometimes obovate or oblong-elliptic, apex broad-acuminate to rounded, the terminal gland rather thick and prominent, base cuneate into the petiole, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, firm, margin paler and cartilaginous, crenulate in the upper part of the lamina, the teeth initially ciliate, or subentire, or entire, glabrous above, laxly blackish punctulate beneath by the remaining bases of early caducous bristles, 1.4-2.5(-3.5) by (0.8-)1-1.5 cm, midrib impressed above, nearly flat beneath, nerves obscure; petiole thickish, rugulose, laxly setulose, 2(-3) mm. Flowers axillary, solitary, or rarely in twos, occasionally also in threes. Pedicels slender, nodding, subglabrous, 6-8(-10) mm. Bracteoles ovate, obtuse, +-connate, ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx c. 3 mm, glabrous, lobes ovate, obtuse, very shortly glandular-muriculate or-fimbriate, c. 2 mm. Corolla urceolate, glabrous, blood red, 6.5 mm, shortly 5-lobed. Filaments linear, glabrous, 4 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, echinulate, 1.8 mm, the broad and short tubules included. Ovary glabrous; style 3 mm. Fruit blackish, c. 4 mm ø.
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