Epiphytic or subscandent small shrub, 0.2-0.4 m. Tips of branchlets subdensely and exclusively set with setular subappressed hairs. Leaves lax, variable in shape and size, elliptic or oblong-elliptic, more rarely broad-elliptic, apex shortly attenuate-acuminate, rarely apiculate, the terminal gland a little prominent, base attenuate or rarely +-rounded, coriaceous, glabrous above, lower surface laxly subsetular-muriculate or finally punctate, margin crenulate, the crenations ending with a long rather persistent bristle, (2.2-)2.5-3.5(-4) by (1—) 1.3—1.8(-2) cm, midrib distinctly impressed above, obtusely prominent beneath, nerves 2 pairs, the lower pair a little from above the leaf-base, the upper one from +-the middle of the midrib, both slightly immersed above, less distinct beneath; petiole 2-3 mm. Flowers solitary in the leaf-axils, nodding, 4-5-merous. Pedicels laxly muriculate, 2-3(-4) mm at anthesis, accrescent sometimes to 6 mm in fruit. Calyx tube cupular, attenuate at base, pinkish, 4-6(-7) mm in fresh specimens, lobes ovate-acuminate, glandular-ciliate, 2-3 mm. Corolla urceolate, rather fleshy, glabrous, pinkish, 8-9 by 6 mm in dry, 10-11 by 8 mm in fresh specimens, lobes whitish, 1.5 mm. Stamens 8 or 10; filaments linear, wavy, glabrous, 5 mm; cells 2.8 mm; style glabrous, 5(-6) mm. Ovary glabrous. Mature fruit pear-shaped, purple, 6-8 by c. 5 mm.
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