Terrestrial, sometimes scandent, apparently small shrub. Branchlets with spreading fine hairs, lax longish bristles and scattered gland-thickened hairs in the recent parts or young shoots, older parts covered with a thin, flaky, early caducous bark, which still shows the bases of the glandular hairs and/or bristles as dark points, old parts striate-corticate and quite glabrous. Leaves linear, rather laxly arranged and ± spreading horizontally, sometimes more reflexed, subcoriaceous, shortly or gradually subacutely attenuate or acuminate, the apical gland minute, base shortly attenuate to the petiole, with a few long bristles along the margin when very young, glabrous at maturity, laxly brownish punctulate below, entire, ± flat, 4-7(-8) cm by 1.5-2.5(-3) mm, midrib much impressed above, rather obscure beneath, no nerves or veins; petiole 1.5-2 mm. Flowers axillary, solitary or in twos. Bracteoles glandular-fimbrio-late. Calyx glabrous, 3 mm long, tube rather shortly and abruptly narrowed at the base, lobes ovate-triangular, blunt, c. 1.2 mm, subdensely with thickish subsessile glands (no hairs) along the whole margin. Corolla urn-shaped, widely opened, thin, glabrous, c. 4 by 2.5 mm, lobes c. 1 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, 2 mm; anther-cells ovate-acuminate, base obtuse, c. 1.8 mm. Ovary glabrous; style slender, glabrous, c. 2.5 mm. Immature fruit creamy white.
In padang or peat swamp forest, also in kerangas (peaty Shorea albida 'kerapaW) forest undergrowth, 60-801 m, locally abundant. Fl. April, July-Aug.
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