Shrub, c. 1 m, lax, decumbent, terrestrial or epiphyte, sometimes climbing. Branches terete, greyish corticate. Branchlets subangular, brownish, with some scattered long and +-appressed bristles in the youngest parts, which bear not yet fully developed leaves, otherwise glabrous. Leaves elliptic or ovate-elliptic, sometimes +-ovate or oblong, apex rather shortly and +-abruptly caudate-acuminate, acute, the terminal gland small, not protruding, base rounded or broad-cuneate, occasionally slightly cordate, coriaceous at full maturity, very young ones with scattered very short glandular appressed hairs underneath, mature ones glabrous on both faces, but with rather indistinct blackish points underneath, entire, (11-)12-18 by (4-)5-9(-12) cm, midrib +-distinctly impressed above, thickly raised beneath, nerves 4-5 pairs, remote, curved-ascendent and inarching with several less distinct or shorter and more straight ones between them, slightly immersed above, prominent beneath, veins mostly rather inconspicuous; petiole thick, canaliculate above, thick, 4-5 by 1.5-2 mm. Flowers mostly solitary, sometimes in twos, from the axils of the inferior defoliate part of the branchlets. Pedicels filiform, at anthesis (2-)2.5-3.5 cm, laxly set with longish appressed early caducous bristle-like hairs. Bracteoles narrow-ovate, subacute, glabrous, ciliolate, 1-1.5 mm. Calyx pear-or funnel-shaped, rugulose, 3-4 mm, only slightly accrescent in fruit, glabrous, lobes patent, ovate, acute, glandular-ciliate,1-1.5 mm. Corolla pale green, short-urceolate, rounded at the base, the mouth broadly open, 4 mm, glabrous, shortly 5-lobed, lobes rather straight, 1.5 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, 1.5 mm; anther-cells ovate-oblong, granular, 1.3 mm; tubules 0.7 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 2-2.5 mm. Fruit blue or purplish, finally blackish.
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