Straggly, scrambling epiphytic shrub with branches to 4-6 (-10) dm long; branchlets terete, moderately to densely spreading puberulous with hyaline, sordid or tawny trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long; internodes mostly 1-2 mm long but occasionally 3-5 mm. Leaves coriaceous, entire, narrowly oblanceolate, or elliptic, 8-12 mm long, 2.5-4.5 mm wide, mostly about 3 times as long as wide, apically acute in general outline but the actual apex obtuse, gradually tapering basally into the petiole, moderately to densely appressed to spreading pubescent with inconspicuous, fine, hyaline trichomes less than 0.1 mm long on both the surfaces, the lower surface also with a sparse scattering of dark clavate glands, the midvein distinctly impressed above, slightly elevated beneath and the vena-tion otherwise indistinct above and indefinite but pinnately parallel below, dark green above and green below; petioles 1-1.5 mm long, moderately spreading short pubescent with sordid trichomes, conspicuously glaucous. Inflorescence of solitary, subsessile flowers; pedicels to 1.2 mm long; bracts 2-3, basal, oblong to ovate, pale green; bracteoles 2, broadly clasping, ovate, broadly rounded, borne just beneath and embracing the flower, outside moderately to densely spreading fine pubescent, glabrous within. Flowers with the hypanthium terete, campanu-late, glabrous, pale green, 0.5-0.7 mm long, 1.2-1.5 mm in diameter; calyx lobes 4, erect to slightly spreading, deltoid, acute, 1.5-1.7 mm long entire and ciliate, sparsely and very finely pubescent externally; corolla white with pinkish hue, the tube cylindric, 4-5 mm long, 1.8-2.2 mm in diameter, glabrous, the lobes 4, strongly spreading, the recurved tips ca. 1.5 mm long, deltoid, acute with strongly incurved margins; stamens 8, exserted beyond the corolla tube and only a little shorter than the lobes, the filaments white, 2-2.2 mm long, flattened, moderately to densely hyaline setose, the anthers red, minutely granular papillate, ca. 1 mm long, each thecae tapering into a slender tubule ca. 2 mm long; style pale green, glabrous, exserted slightly beyond the corolla lobes.
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