Straggly epiphytic shrub 2-10 dm tall; brachlets subterete, irregularly ridged and grooved, moderately to densely spreading pilosulose with hyaline to slightly tawny trichomes mostly 0.3-0.7 mm long; internodes short, mostly less than '/3 the length of the nearest leaf and usually 2-7 mm long. Leaf blades coriaceous, strongly spreading or merely divergent forming an angle 90O45O; minutely and indistinctly serrulate or entire, typically narrowly linear oblong to elliptic, less commonly shortly and narrowly oblanceolate, mostly 8-12 mm long, 2.5-4 mm wide, typically about 4-times as long as wide, apically acute, basally tapering or somewhat rounded, sparsely and indistictly appressed pilosulose, especially on the lower surface, becoming glabrate, obscurely and finely short ciliate near the apex but becoming glabrate; venation obscure, neither elevated nor im-pressed; petioles 1-1.5 mm long, moderately to densely spreading puberulous or short pubescent, the trichomes 0.2-0.5 mm long. Inflorescences of solitary, subsessile flowers; bracts 2-3, basal, broadly clasping, ovate, ciliate, almost as broad as long; bracteoles 2, broadly clasping, ovate, sparsely puberulous, ciliate, 2.5-3.5 mm long, borne just beneath and embracing base of the flower. Flowers with the hypanthium terete in cross section, campanulate, glabrous, ca. 1 mm long, 1 mm in diameter; calyx lobes 4, acute, erect, lance ovate, 2-2.5 mm long, entire, conspicuously ciliate with spreading, hyaline trichomes ca. 0.2 mm long, sparsely appressed pilosulose or glabrous; corolla white, glabrous, the tube cylindric, 4-6 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter, glabrous, the lobes 4, acute, triangular, erect; stamens equalling the corolla and the style. Berry white, thin walled, many seeded.
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