Shrub, 0.6-2.5 m, rarely a treelet, sometimes epiphytic. Branches dark, provided with the remnants of the thick leaf-cushions. Branchlets brownish and entirely glabrous. Leaves elongate-spathulate, widest in the upper third, apex rounded-obtuse or mostly slightly retuse, with a markedly protracted dark and thick terminal gland, base gradually attenuate into a thick, rugulose, 2-3 mm long petiole, coriaceous, stiff, margin subcartilaginous and revolute, (1.8-)4-6.5 by (0.3-)0.8-1.2(-1.6) cm, midrib grooved above over the entire length, broadened and rather flat beneath, one pair of basal nerves running along the edge, very slightly impressed above, obsolete beneath, other upper nerves 1-2 on each side, faintly impressed or mostly inconspicuous. Flowers axillary, (2-)3(-5) per fascicle. Pedicels rather slender, laxly to subdensely very shortly and patently hairy, 5-6 mm, basal bracts minute. Bracteoles broad-ovate, all over very shortly hairy, ciliolate, 1 mm. Calyx c. 4 mm, glabrous, minutely verruculose, lobes ovate, obtuse, ciliolate, 2 mm. Corolla subglobose-urceolate, 4 by 3 mm, rather fleshy, pink, glabrous, very shortly 5-lobed. Filaments linear, glabrous, 2 mm; anther-cells 1 mm; tubules 0.6 mm. Ovary glabrous; style 1.5 mm.
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