Epiphytic, few-stemmed shrub. Branches pendent, 1-2 m, few-branched distally. Branchlets 4-5 mm ø, young shoots very densely, older parts, densely covered both with shorter, slender and ± crisped, and with longer and more robust, erect, 2-4 mm long, rusty, subappressed bristles. Leaves laxly arranged, broadly elliptic to almost rounded, apex shortly attenuate to subrotundate-obtuse, the terminal gland thick and protruding, base broadly attenuate into the petiole, more rarely almost rounded, coriaceous, dark green above, paler beneath, initially rather densely set on both faces with soft rusty subappressed bristles, glabrescent with age above only, entire, edge slightly revolute, (4-)4.5-6.5 by (2.5-)3-4.5(-5) cm, midrib and nerves narrowly impressed above, obtusely prominent beneath, nerves 2(-3) pairs high curved-ascending, the lowest pair coming from the base of the lamina, the other(s) from the midrib c. 1 cm above the base, shorter and less conspicuous than the basal pair; petiole (4-)5-8 by 2-3 mm. Flowers solitary, rarely in twos, very rarely in threes in the upper axils, all over covered with the indumentum found on the branchlets and leaves, except the glabrous corolla. Pedicels stout, 5 mm at anthesis, up to 1 cm in fruit. Bracteoles ovate, c. 2 mm. Calyx cup-shaped, tube very short, lobes ovate-deltoid, c. 2.5 mm. Corolla urceolate-campanulate, thin, white,c.4 mm. Ovary glabrous; style thickish, glabrous, 2.5 mm. Fruit first white-greenish, turning light bluish-purplish with maturity, 5-6 mm ø.
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