Epiphytic shrublet or shrub, few-stemmed. Branches suberect or decumbent, rarely pendent, (0.3-)0.5-0.8(-1.5) m, roots thick and fleshy. Branchlets slender, densely set with longish (2-5 mm) rusty and ± spreading, bristly, and with finer, very short, spreading hairs, the latter disappearing in the older parts of the branchlets. Leaves laxly arranged, elliptic or more rarely subovate-elliptic, apex shortly subacuminate, the apical gland small, base broadly attenuate to almost rounded, subcoriaceous, clad with rufous bristles on both faces and along the edge when young, tardily glabrescent on surfaces, 1.5-2.5(-3) by 0.8-1.5(-1.8) cm, entire or distally subcrenulate, triplinerved, midrib and nerves slightly impressed above, otherwise hardly conspicuous; petiole c. 2 mm. Flowers solitary, rarely in twos in the upper axils. Pedicels with a few bristles and shorter, muriculate and crisp hairs, 0.5-1.5 mm, hardly accrescent in fruit. Bracteoles ovate, 1 mm, edge laxly setular and/or densely fimbriate by very short hairs. Calyx green, flatly campanulate, base abruptly attenuate, 5-lobed halfway, glabrous except some muriculate hairs dorsally, lobes 1.3 mm, the edge with a comblike indumentum of glandular bristles (0.5-0.8 mm) especially below, ciliolate upwards. Corolla urceolate-campanulate, light green or greenish creamy, thin, glabrous, 4-5 by 3-4 mm, lobes reflexed, 1 mm. Filaments linear, glabrous, wavy, 2 mm; anther-cells oblong, base slightly retuse or subsagittate, 1.8 mm. Ovary with a few longish hairs around the style, otherwise glabrous; style slender, glabrous, 3 mm. Fruit finally purplish or bluish, c. 5 mm.
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