Epiphytic or terrestrial shrub. Branchlets robust, angular, older parts greyish corticate, younger ones brownish, glabrous. Leaves broadly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, or suborbicular, sometimes obov-vate, apex broad-attenuate, obtuse to rounded, rarely subemarginate, the terminal gland thick and prominent, base shortly cuneate into the petiole, coriaceous, glabrous, but laxly punctulate beneath, shining above, rather dull beneath, entire, margin revolute, 5-7(-8) by (3-)3.5-5(-5.8) cm, midrib grooved above, manifestly prominent beneath, nerves 3-4(-5) pairs, slightly curved towards the edge, ± anastomosing, mostly somewhat impressed above, raised beneath, reticulation rather inconspicuous above; petiole canaliculate, rugulose, 3-5 by 2 mm. Flowers 3-8(-15) per fascicle. Pedicels stoutish, rusty-tomentulose, 5-8 mm, basal bracts numerous, ovate acute, pubescent, c. 1.5 mm. Bracteoles suborbicular-ovate, obtuse, rusty-pubescent dorsally, 1.5 by 2 mm. Calyx 3.5-4 mm, glabrous, lobes ovate-acuminate, subacute, ciliate and glandular-muriculate, c. 2 mm. Corolla campanulate, light brown to fallow red, glabrous, 7-8 mm, lobes c. 2 mm. Filaments linear, somewhat dilated in the middle only, papillose in the upper half, c. 3 mm; anthers oblong, echinulate, 2.8 mm, the very short tubules included. Ovary glabrous; style 6 mm.
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