Low shrub, c. 0.3 m. Branchlets laxly subpatently rufous-setulose in the juvenile, still less so in the older, already greyish corticate parts, subdensely or more laxly foliate. Leaves obovate or obovate-, more rarely subrotundate-elliptic, apex rounded or faintly emarginate, the terminal gland thick and protruding beyond the leaf margin, base broadly cuneate into the petiole, coriaceous, with sparse setular hairs on the midrib beneath and along the edge in immature, glabrous except very short muriculate glandular hairs on the undersurface in fully mature leaves, (1.5-)2—3 by (1-)1.5-2.5 cm, regularly subserrate-crenulate (the teeth 1-2 mm spaced), +-revolute especially towards the base of the lamina, midrib and nerves distinctly impressed above, subinconspicuous beneath, basal nerves 1, suprabasal ones 1 or 2 pairs, curved-ascending and anastomosing, other shorter nerves or veins from higher parts of the midrib faintly sunken above, or obscure; petiole grooved above, 4-6 by 1-1.5 mm, not rarely a little winged in the upper part by the shortly de-current lamina. Flowers in 2-3-flowered fascicles, or more rarely solitary in the upper axils, nodding. Pedicels rather slender, laxly or very laxly sub-appressedly setular-hairy, or muriculate, 1-1.5(-1.8) cm at anthesis. Calyx funnel-shaped below, 5 mm long in all, the 2 basal bracteoles ovate, ciliolate, 1-1.2 mm, tube reddish, minutely rugulose and muriculate, lobes ovate-triangular, subacute, ciliolate and glandular-fimbriate, c. 2 mm. Corolla cylindric-urceolate, thin, pink, whitish at the lobes inside, glabrous, c. 9 by 4 mm at full anthesis, lobes obtuse, suberect, 1 mm. Filaments narrow-linear, glabrous, a little wavy., c. 4 mm; anthers oblong, 3 mm long including the lobes; cells granular; tubules narrowed towards the apex c. 1.2 mm. Ovary glabrous; style slenderly columnar, glabrous, 5.5 mm.
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