Epiphytic shrub. Branches stoutish, terete. Branchlets rather short, angular, reddish when dry, covered with a fine papillose puberulence in the youngest parts, otherwhere glabrescent. Leaves oblong-cuneate or obovate, apex broadly obtusely attenuate or mostly rounded, sometimes retuse, the terminal gland rather thick and +-protruding, base cuneate into the petiole, stiff-coriaceous, glabrous above, laxly minutely punctate beneath, margin distinctly cartilaginous, +-revolute, entire or obsoletely crenulate especially towards the apex of the lamina, (1.8-)2.5-4.5 by (0.7-)1-2.5(-2.8) cm, +-triplinerved, midrib narrowly sunken above, shallowly and more broadly so beneath, nerves faintly impressed above; petiole grooved, glabrous, reddish when dry, 2-3 mm. Flowers 2 or 3, rarely up to 5 per fascicle, occasionally solitary. Pedicels rather slender, puberulous, c. 4 mm. Bracteoles ovate, subacuminate, +-puberulous dorsally, muriculate-ciliate, 1 mm. Calyx turbinate-contract-ed at the base, glabrous, c. 2 mm, 4-lobed halfway, lobes triangular, obtuse, muriculate-or clavate-ciliate. Corolla subglobose-urceolate, glabrous, light rose to nearly white, 3 by 2.5 mm, the 4 short lobes recurved. Stamens 8; filaments S-curved, linear, glabrous, 2 mm; anther-cells ovate-oblong, echinulate, c. 1.5 mm, the broad and short tubules included. Ovary glabrous; style c. 1 mm. Fruit depressed-globose, c. 3.5 mm0, first whitish, finally light blue.
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