Glabrous except for the inflorescence and flowers hairy when young, soon glabrescent. Leaves opposite; lamina ovate, 5-10 by 1.5-4 cm, cuneate or truncate at the base to a petiole 10-16 mm long, acuminate and acute at the apex, dull but polished on both sides; venation pinnate with the midrib and the main laterals distinct on both sides. Inflorescencess at the nodes, a many-flowered spike; axis 60-120 mm long; bracts strongly reflexed, with a dorsal spur-like sac, c. 1 mm long. Ovary campanulate, c. 1.5 mm long; calyx limb entire, c. 0.2 mm long. Corolla in mature bud 5-merous, 4.5-5.5 mm long, strongly keeled in the lower part, narrowed to a slender neck, clavate and obtuse or rounded at the apex, pinkish to deep red. Anther c. 0.5 mm long, obtuse, about equal to the free part of the filament. Style 3-4 mm long, reaching to the base of the anthers, angular in the lower 1-1.5 mm below a weak constriction, more slender above; stigma capitate, 1.5-2 times as wide as the style apex.
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