Epiphytic, scandent shrub. Branches slender, laxly setulose or glabrescent. Branchlets densely, their angular tips even more densely and +-patently setulose (1.5-2 mm). Leaves elliptic, apex shortly or subabruptly acuminate, the apical gland rather small, base cuneate, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, very laxly setulose on both faces when young, glabrescent with age above, minutely denticulate, each tooth passing into a long ± persistent bristle, (1.4-)2-3.2 by (0.8-)1.2-1.7 cm, midrib slightly impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 2 pairs, one pair low, the other higher from the midrib, ± faintly visible beneath as are the mayor veins; petiole setulose, 1.5-2 mm. Flowers axillary, solitary. Pedicels slender, subdensely and ± patently longish setulose, (3-)4(-5) mm. Bracteoles ovate-suborbicular, very laxly setulose dorsally, ciliate, c. 1.2 mm. Calyx 4 mm, all over subdensely and +-patently covered with longish (2 mm), ± crisped, rufescent hairs, lobes ovate-triangular, subacute, 2.5 mm. Corolla urceolate, glabrous or with some solitary scattered hairs at the lobes, red, 6.5 by 2.5 mm, lobes 1 mm. Filaments linear, very slightly dilated towards the base, glabrous, 3 mm; anthers 1.8 mm including the very short and broad tubules. Ovary glabrous; style nearly 3 mm. Fruit dark blue, laxly set with rufescent setose hairs, c. 5 mm ø.
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