Shrub, epiphytic or terrestrial and rambling amongst dense shrubs, with pendent branches, up to 2.5 m. Branchlets densely patently and longish (2-3 mm) brown-setulose in the younger, greyish and glabrescent in the older parts. Leaves ovate, apex caudate-acuminate, acute, the apical gland small, base rounded to subcordate, coriaceous, dark green and glossy above, glabrous (except the midrib) and shining above, densely brownish patent-setulose (1-2 mm, especially on the midrib and nerves) and rather dull beneath, margin entire, ± revolute, (3-)3.5-5(-7) by 1.6-2.8(-3) cm, midrib impressed above, prominent beneath, nerves 2-3 pairs from and from above the base of the lamina, curved-ascending, very slightly impressed above, the basal pair ± raised beneath; petiole stout, 1-2 mm, densely setulose. Flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered fascicles, all over longish rusty-to rufous-setulose except the inside of the bracteoles, the inner basal part of the calyx lobes and the corolla at the commissures and its very base. Pedicels stoutish, 4-6 by 1-1.5 mm, basal bracts small. Bracteoles broad-ovate, 2-2.5 mm. Calyx 6-7(-8) mm, deeply 5-lobed, lobes ovate-lanceolate, 5-6(-7) by 1.5-2 mm (at the base). Corolla ± open campanulate, angular, pink red to purple, hairy outside, rather fleshy, 7-8 mm, 5-lobed in the upper 2/5. Filaments slender, glabrous, c. 2.5 mm; anther-cells ovate, granular, 2 mm; tubules straight, nearly 2 mm. Ovary hirtellous; style 4 mm. Fruit pale violet when ripe.
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