Shrublet, epiphytic, up to 40 cm with swollen base. Branches divaricate. Branchlets slender, tips rather densely covered with dark rufous +-appressed fine bristles (1-2 mm) and a dense to rather lax indument of fine very short spreading hairs, ± densely foliate. Leaves elliptic-oblong or elliptic, sometimes (in the same specimen) in part ovate-elliptic, apex short-attenuate, obtuse to rounded, the terminal gland small, only slightly prominent, base mostly short-attenuate, rarely rounded, coriaceous, stiff, flat, glabrous above, obscurely punctate or finally completely glabrous beneath, crenulate, the teeth ending in very fine ± caducous bristles, margin not revolute, (7-)10-18 by (4-)5-7 mm, triplinerved, midrib and nerves slightly impressed on both faces, the latter not rarely rather inconspicuous at all; petiole setulose, glabrescent, 1-1.5 mm. Flowers mostly solitary, rarely in twos. Pedicels rather glabrous, 1.5-2 mm. Bracteoles minute, ovate, 0.5 mm. Calyx glabrous, 1.5 mm, lobes deltoid, obtuse, ciliolate, 1 mm. Corolla narrow-campanulate, white, glabrous, c. 5.5 mm, shortly 5-lobed. Filaments filiform, glabrous, S-curved, c. 2.5 mm; anthers sagittate, echinulate, 2.6 mm in all; tubules slender, c. 1.5 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 4-5 mm. Young fruit covered by the apparently slightly accrescent calyx in the lower part only.
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A scrambling shrub. The leaves are small and 12 mm long by 6 mm wide. The flowers are small and bell shaped. There are 2 small leaf like attachments of the flower stalk. The fruit capsule is fleshy.
In Agathis-fotzst, 600-1370 m, apparently common on Mt Mattang, said to be frequent on rocks of Mt Poi. Fl. Oct.-Dec.
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