Straggling shrub, sometimes epiphytic. Branchlets laxly longish rufescent-setulose in the older, more densely so in the younger parts. Leaves narrow lanceolate, apex acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland small, base gradually attenuate, subcoriaceous, glabrous above, laxly clothed with sub-appressed, strigose, rufous hairs or bristles, which are caducous except near the base of the lamina, remotely denticulate to subentire, (3.5-)4-5.5 by 0.3-0.6 cm, midrib impressed above the entire length, prominent beneath, nerves obsolete; petiole hirsute, c. 2 mm. Flowers 3-5 per fascicle in the upper axils. Pedicels rather stoutish, densely shortly rufous-pubescent and-setulose, 6-8 mm in fruit. Bracteoles broad-ovate, glabrous dorsally, ciliate, 1 mm. Calyx fleshy in fruit, lobes deltoid subacuminate, ciliate. Fruit subglobose, glabrous, c. 4 mm ø, blue when ripe; style slender, 5 mm.
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