Scandent, epiphytic, divaricately branched shrub. Branchlets rather slender, tips densely set with forward-directed, rufescent or paler bristles (2 mm), early glabrescent and covered with fissured cork below, laxly leaved. Leaves elliptic, rarely subobovate-elliptic, apex broadly attenuate to rounded, apiculate by a thick, protruding gland, base broadly cuneate, rarely almost rounded, coriaceous, glabrous and shining above, densely set with short suberect setular hairs with dark thickened base beneath, edge somewhat revolute and densely crenulate, (2.5-)2.8-4.5(-5.5) by (1.5-)2-3(-3.2) cm, 5-plinerved, midrib and nerves narrowly impressed above, obtusely raised beneath, nerves not rarely almost obscure; petiole 3-5(-6) by 1.5(-2) mm. Flowers axillary, solitary or in twos. Pedicels rather slender, densely clad with strigose or setular, crisp or subpatent, eglandular hairs (c. 1.5 mm), 6-7 mm. Bracteoles ovate, c. 1 mm, margin fimbriate by a few short glandular and numerous finer eglandular hairs. Calyx cup-shaped, much contracted at the base and glabrous there, otherwise provided with appressed setular hairs up to the lobes, tube 2 mm, 2 mm ø at the attenuate base, 3 mm ø at the limb, thin, glabrous, red to pink, sometimes yellowish, lobes reflexed, 1 mm. Filaments filiform, glabrous, 3.5 mm; anthers narrow-oblong, 1.8 mm including the tubules. Ovary glabrous; style slender, glabrous, 4 mm. Submature fruit reddish.
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