Epiphytic shrub, c. 1 mm. Branchlets divaricate, rather robust, 1.5-3 mm ø, very densely set with rufous setular hairs at the youngest, gradually less densely so in the older parts, densely foliate. Leaves elliptic, shortly attenuate or more rarely subrotundate at the apex, which bears a thick, c. 1 mm protruding gland, base broadly attenuate, coriaceous, dull, glabrous above, sparsely to very sparsely rufous-setulose, more densely appressedly glandular-muriculate beneath, youngest ones subcrenulate and caducously setular-ciliate, older ones subentire at full age, (1.5-)1.8—2.5 by (1-)1.2-1.5(-1.7) cm, the edge slightly revolute, midrib and nerves much impressed above, subinconspicuous beneath, the basal or slightly suprabasal nerves 1, upper nerves (from the lower third to half of the midrib) 1 (rarely 2) pairs, all high curved-ascending and anastomosing; petiole setular initially, 2-3 by c. 1 mm. Flowers solitary in numerous upper axils. Pedicels stoutish, laxly muriculate, at anthesis 1-2, in fruit up to 3 mm, with 2 ovate ciliate opposite bracteoles (1 mm) below the calyx. Calyx campanulate, glabrous, tube 0.5-0.7 mm, lobes subovate-deltoid, bluntish, (1-)1.5 mm, glandular-fimbriate. Corolla subglobular, much contracted or almost apiculate distally, early caducous, c. 2 by 2.5 mm, quite glabrous, pale pink, ± fleshy, lobes erect, hardly 0.5 mm. Filaments subulate, glabrous, 0.8-1 mm; anther-cells ovate-oblong, echinulate, 0.5 mm; tubules contracted, c. 0.3 mm. Ovary glabrous; style slender, glabrous, at anthesis 1-1.5, in fruit 1.5-2 mm. Immature fruit c. 2.5 mm, light blue.
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