Erect shrub, c. 1 m, epiphytic. Branches and branchlets terete, the latter densely subappressed-rufous-setose (c. 1.5 mm), laxly leaved. Leaves rather narrowly oblong-elliptic, apex gradually acuminate, subacute, the terminal gland small, only slightly protracted, base ± broadly attenuate, firmly subcoriaceous, glabrous above at maturity, laxly to subdensely covered with stiff rather coarse and ± appressed rufous bristles (2-3 mm) beneath, which partly go, partly persist for a long time especially on the midrib, finally only brownish punctate underneath, entire or indistinctly denticulate, (2-)2.5-4(-5) by (0.8-)1-1.7(-2) cm, midrib impressed above, slightly raised beneath, nerves 2(-3) pairs high curved-ascending, indistinctly anastomosing, mostly hardly visible above, rather obscurely raised beneath; petiole stoutish, setulose, 2-3 mm. Flowers solitary or in twos in the upper axils. Pedicels recurved, densely and ± patently (subglandular-)setulose, (5-)6-8 mm at anthesis, up to 10 mm in later stages, basal bracts scariose, minute. Bracteoles ovate, glabrous, ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx c. 3 mm, glabrous, lobes ovate, ciliolate, c. 2 mm. Corolla subglobose-urceolate, glabrous, whitish or rose when fresh, c. 5 mm ø, very shortly 5-lobed. Filaments filiform, glabrous, 2.5 mm; anther-cells oblong-ovate, very granular, c. 2 mm including the very short tubules. Ovary glabrous; style 3.5 mm. Fruit red, c. 1 mm ø.
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