Habit unknown. Branchlets glabrous, densely lenticellate, terete. Leaves: petiole 3-8 mm long, glabrous; blade coriaceous, elliptic, 6-17.2 by 3-6.6 cm, 1.9-2.7 times as long as wide, apex short acuminate with a blunt tip, base obtuse, glabrous above and beneath, secondary veins 21-33 pairs with 2-6 mm spacing, 75-85° from midrib. Inflorescence with few elongate branches, 3.5-9 cm long with axes 1-8 cm long and branches 2.3 mm wide, glabrous; peduncle 0.2-0.5 cm by 2 mm, glabrous; pedicels 1.3-2 mm long, glabrous; subtending bracts persistent; bracts present or absent on pedicels. Sepals ovate, 1.7-2 by 1.4-1.5 mm, 1.2-1.3 times as long as wide, apex rounded, ciliate, otherwise glabrous outside and inside. Corolla bright red; tube 15-17 by 1.6-1.7 mm, 1.3-1.5 times as long as lobes, 7.5-10 times as long as calyx, densely pubescent beneath stamens and becoming less so further down, throat glabrous, glabrous outside; lobes 11-11.5 by 2.2-2.3 mm, 4.8-5.2 times as long as wide, narrowly oblong, apex obtuse, not ciliate, glabrous outside and inside. Stamens inserted 16.7-17 mm from corolla base which is c. 0.8 of corolla tube length in rehydrated flowers; anthers 2.2-2.4 by 0.5-0.6 mm, 4-4.4 times as long as wide, apex c. 0.9 mm from corolla throat; filaments c. 1 mm long, glabrous. Disk c. 1.4 mm long, 1.4-1.6 times as long as ovaries, glabrous, awl-shaped, apex acute. Ovaries 0.9-1 mm high, glabrous; style c. 16 mm long; style head c. 0.7 mm long. Fruit not seen (see note).
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