Shrub, terrestrial or epiphytic. Branchlets greyish and laxly patently setose in the older, reddish brown and very densely setose (2-3 mm) in the recent parts. Leaves ovate, shortly, sometimes +-abruptly acuminate, acute, the terminal gland small, base rounded to slightly cordate, subcoriaceous, entire, soft-setulose along the midrib and nerves above, densely and patently so (0.5-1.5 mm) all over the undersurface especially on the midrib, longish setulose-ciliate along the margin, 3.5-6 by (2-)2.5-3.5 cm, midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 2 pairs from and somewhat from above the base of the lamina, curved-ascending, other nerves from the midrib in 1-2 less distinct pairs, all slightly impressed above, +-raised beneath, reticulation only visible on the upperside of old leaves; petiole stout, densely setose, 2-3(-4) by 1.5 mm. Flowers axillary, solitary or in twos. Pedicels very slender, nearly filiform, rather laxly set with patent bristle-like hairs, 0.8-1.3 cm, accrescent in fruit up to 2 cm. Bracteoles broad-ovate, glabrous, ciliate, c. 1 mm. Calyx c. 3 mm, with some bristle-like hairs dorsally and at the lobes, glabrous otherwise, lobes ovate, obtuse, shortly glandular-fimbriate, 1.5 mm. Corolla urceolate, glabrous, deeply red, 1-1.1 cm long, 4-5 mm ø (c. 6 mm at base), shortly 5-lobed. Filaments linear, glabrous, 4-5 mm; anthers inflexed at base, oblong, echinulate, 2.5 mm including the rather short tubules. Ovary glabrous; style 6-7 mm. Fruit black when dry, bluish when fresh, glabrous, 6-7 mm ø.
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