Epiphytic shrub, few-stemmed, hanging from tree trunks 2-3 m above the ground, 0.5-1 m. Branchlets slender, recent shoots densely, older ones densely to more laxly and exclusively set with rufescent, setular, ± appressed, eglandular hairs, glabrescent with age, becoming striate and blackish, 2-3 mm ø. Leaves lax, lanceolate, more, rarely subovate-or subelliptic-lanceolate, apex shortly attenuate or subacuminate, the apical gland small and hardly protruding, base attenuate or cuneate to the petiole, subcoriaceous, dirty olivaceous, glabrous above at full maturity, laxly and finely setular below and along the edge, or finally punctulate below, minutely crenulate or subentire, (1-)1.3-2(-2.2) by 0.5-0.8(-1) cm, midrib very narrow and impressed above, slightly prominent beneath, nerves 1(-2) pairs, high curved-ascendent, rather obscure generally; petiole slender, c. 1 mm. Flowers solitary, or rarely in twos in the upper axils. Pedicels stoutish, subdensely or more laxly muriculate and finely hairy, 1-2 mm. Bracteoles ovate, acute, 1 mm, ciliolate. Calyx cup-shaped, green, glabrous, 2 mm in all, 5-lobed to 2/3, lobes deltoid, subacute, ciliolate and often laxly glandular-fimbriate below. Corolla urceolate, tube light green, purplish towards the lobes, glabrous, 3 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, 1.3 mm; anthers oblong, base obtuse, 1 mm. Ovary with a few hairs on top, glabrous otherwise; style slender, c. 1.8 mm. Fruit pale bluish, pruinose, c. 3 mm ø.
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