Terrestrial or epiphytic shrub. Branchlets (very) slender, terete, greyish brownish corticate, laxly setulose, toward the subangular tips more densely patently or subappressedly rufous-setulose (bristles 1-1.5 mm, gland-tipped initially) and densely patent-puberulent. Leaves ovate-lanceolate, sub-falcate-caudate-acuminate towards the apex, acute, the terminal gland small, base broadly cuneate into the petiole, firmly subcoriaceous, glabrous and somewhat shining above, dull and ± laxly clad with subappressed bristles especially along the midrib, margin subrevolute, subentire, the teeth indicated by bristles which persist for a long time, 4-6 by 1-1.6 cm, triplinerved, midrib distinctly impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves very slightly sunken above only; petiole grooved, short setose, 2-3 mm. Flowers axillary, solitary or in twos. Pedicels stoutish, with several small basal bracts, glabrous 5-8 mm at anthesis, (9-)10-12 mm in fruit. Bracteoles cup-like, ovate-acuminate, subacute, glabrous dorsally, puberulous at the apex, very shortly subglandular-ciliolate or-fimbriate, 1.5 mm. Calyx campanulate, 2,5 mm, 5-lobed to nearly 2/3, lobes ovate-subacuminate, glabrous dorsally, glandular-fimbriate. Corolla broadly urceolate, but slightly contracted at the mouth, red, glabrous, c. 6 mm long in all, c. 3 mmo in the lower third, lobes reflexed, c. 1.5 mm. Filaments broadly linear below, becoming almost filiform and distinctly S-curved upwards, c. 2 mm; anthers 2.5 mm long in all, cells ovate-oblong, base obtuse, recurved, passing into the narrow tubules which are as long as the cells. Ovary with some hairs on the top, glabrous otherwise; style glabrous, 3 mm.
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