Weak epiphytic shrublet, trailing over moss cushions. Branches and branchlets 1-2 mm ø, young parts densely set with soft setular, initially glanduliferous, +-spreading, (2-)3-4 mm long rusty hairs, older parts gradually glabrescent and greyish, laxly foliate. Leaves elliptic or subovate-elliptic, apex shortly acuminate, the apical gland rather small, base ± broadly attenuate, subcoriaceous, dark green and shining above, paler beneath when fresh, olivaceous above, brown below when dry, first covered on both sides and along the edge with long, ± appressed, bristle-like hairs, glabrescent above only with age, margin hardly revolute, entire or practically so, (2.5-)3-4 by (1.2-)1.5-2.3 cm, rather indistinctly impressedly trinerved above only; petiole (4-)5-6 mm. Flowers solitary, rarely in twos in the upper axils. Pedicels very slender, (2-)3-4(-5) mm, glabrous. Bracteoles ovate, 1 mm, cristate-fimbriate by glandular hairs. Calyx funnel-shaped, green, 3 mm long in all, 5-lobed halfway, glabrous, tube much attenuate towards the base, lobes ovate-acuminate, glandular-fimbriate, moreover ciliolate or barbulate distally. Corolla urceolate, light green when fresh, thin, glabrous, 4-4.5 mm. Filaments linear, wavy, glabrous, 3 mm; anthers ovate-oblong, base obtuse, 1.5 mm including the tubules. Ovary glabrous; style purplish, 3-3.5 mm.
In dense, +-stunted mossy Nothofagus-, Myrtaeeae-, and Rapanea-forest, 1900-1950 m. Fl.--11.
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